1. Ciaran Carson, Last Night’s Fun: In and Out of Time with Irish Music (New York: North Point Press, 1996), p. 28.
2. Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994), p. 60.
3. Ciaran Carson, ‘The Insular Celts’ in The New Estate and Other Poems (Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 1988), p. 12.
4. Ciaran Carson, ‘Against Oblivion’, review of C. K. Williams’s Poems 1963–1983, in The Irish Review 6 (1989), pp. 113–16
5. Ciaran Carson, ‘For All I Know: Ciaran Carson in Conversation with Elmer Kennedy-Andrews’, in Elmer Kennedy-Andrews (ed.), Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays (Dublin: Four Courts, 2009), p. 23.