A. NORMAN JEFFARES has taught in the Universities of Dublin, Edinburgh, Adelaide, Leeds and Stirling. Life President at IASIL, the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, he has written two histories of Irish literature and many studies of Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats: Man and Poet, W.B. Yeats: A New Biography, Yeats's Poems and Commentaries on Yeats's poems and plays. Two volumes of his own poems have been published, and his recent work includes an edition of Oliver St. John Gogarty's Poems and Plays. He is currently writing a book of his own, Anecdotes, and co-editing two volumes of Irish writing in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries.

ANNA MACBRIDE WHITE is one of Maud Gonne's four grandchildren. She co-edited The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938: Always Your Friend (1992) and A Servant of the Queen (1994). She has recently completed the first volume of a Life of Maud Gonne Macbride.

CHRISTINA BRIDGWATER is the grandaughter of Iseult Gonne. She has a degree in French and Art History.