Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years. Contents as follows: David Aers on the Testimony of William Thorpe - Valerie Allen on tournament and toxophily in late-medieval England - Julia Boffey on Chaucer’s fortune in the 1530s - John A. Burrow Chaucer’s Book of the duchess - Helen Conrad-O'Briain Sir Orfeo - Helen Cooper The date of the Auchinleck manuscript - Anne Marie D'Arcy Henryson’s The testament of Cresseid - A.S.G. Edwards The Canterbury tales - Richard Firth Green ‘The hunting of the hare’ - Alan J. Fletcher The pearl - Ralph Hanna Some TCD manuscripts - Angela M. Lucas on Chaucer’s Franklin’s tale - Peter J. Lucas on Capgrave’s The solace of pilgrimes - Alastair J. Minnis Piers Plowman - Charlotte C. Morse Scenes of farewell in the middle ages - Derek Pearsall The flower and the leaf and The assembly of ladies - Helen Phillips Remembering Edward I - Oliver S. Pickering The Alphabetical praise of womenA?A?A?A?Wendy Scase on MS Harley 2253 - James Simpson on Caxton’s History of Reynard the fox - Myra Stokes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - John J. Thompson Manuscripts and texts associated with John Stow - Thorlac Turville-Petre on St Erkenwald - Greg Walker The Plowman’s tale.