Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sympathy into symbol
  • Sovereignty and the Irish talent
  • Millennia in their eyes
  • Heaney's love to Ireland
  • The fish and the fisher king
  • Bridegroom to the goddess
  • Remembering the giver
  • Appendix to chapter 6: "Bone dreams"
  • Conclusion: Praying at the water's edge.