I can remember those days / Chris Agee -- Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ /John Banville -- Determination / Alex Barclay -- On the devil's disc / Kevin Barry -- St Jerome by Bartolomeo Passarotti / Sebastian Barry -- Jack B. Yeats's Grief (1951) / Dermot Bolger -- Gallery / Eva Bourke -- The Poachers / John Boyne -- The singing horseman / Moya Cannon -- What happens at night / Evelyn Conlon -- Cordélie / Philip Davison -- Paul Henry, Moonlight / Gerald Dawe --Night prayer / John F. Deane -- William Mulready's The Sonnet / Gerard Donovan -- Ernest Meissonier, Cavalry in the Snow: Moreau and Dessoles Before Hohenlinden / Theo Dorgan -- A morning in the city / Roddy Doyle -- A painting and a poem / Bernard Farrell -- The NGI guide / Carlo Gébler -- Jack B. Yeats's The Liffey Swim (1923) / Alan Glynn -- Crucifixion / Vona Groarke -- Vacances / Kerry Hardie -- The return from the market / Noëlle Harrison -- Banks of a canal / Seamus Heaney -- The goose girl / Christine Dwyer Hickey -- The Return of the Goats by John Lavery / Declan Hughes -- Le Déjeuner / Jennifer Johnston -- James Arthur O'Connor, Ballinrobe House / Thomas Kilroy -- Paintings / Michael Longley -- Before the start / Martin Malone --Launching the currach / Aoife Mannix -- Propellers / Colum McCann -- James Barry, Self-Portrait as Timanthes / Thomas McCarthy -- The director of sunlight / Medbh McGuckian -- A white horse / Frank McGuinness -- Magdalene, Alice Maher / Eoin McNamee -- Artist's studio, Abbey Road / Paula Meehan -- El Greco's St Francis Receiving the Stigmata / John Montague -- Charles Emile Jacque: Poultry Among Trees / Paul Muldoon -- Men of destiny / Nuala Ní Chonchúir -- A musicians' gallery / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Castles in the air / Elís Ní Dhuibhne -- After Gulliver / Julie O'Callaghan -- Memo to a painter / Dennis O'Driscoll -- The lamentation over the dead Christ / Michael O'Siadhail -- The kitchen maid / Leanne O'Sullivan -- Argenteuil / Justin Quinn --Child's play / Billy Roche -- Onuphrius / Gabriel Rosenstock -- Grace / Donal Ryan -- The anniversary / Patricia Scanlan -- Brueghel: The Wedding in the Barn / Peter Sirr -- John B. Yeats / Colm Tóibín -- I stepped into allegory / William Wall -- Members of the Sheridan family / Macdara Woods -- The piper in the snow / Vincent Woods -- Lost angels / Enda Wyley.