Honouring Martin Quéré o.m.i.

Introduction ... 7 Reminiscences, A biographical essay by Martin Quéré ... 9 A bibiliograpy of works by Martin Quéré ... 17 Sithy Amarasingam - Tamil Literature in Trincomalee District - An Historical Overview ... 21 Marc Amarasinghe - Adapting the novel as a dramatic monologue - An experiment with two novels of Albert Camus ... 29 Jean Arasanayagam - White Houses by the Sea ... 47 Parvathi Arasanayagam - Five Poems ... 51 Thiagaraja Arasanayagam - Return to Colombo ... 55 Osmund Bopearachchi - Archeological Evidence on Cultural and Commercial Relationships between Ancient Sri Lanka and South India ... 61 Deloraine Brohier - The Society of Jesuits in the Island of Cardiva ... 77 Somasiri Devendra - Sailing Ships & Temple Walls ... 81 Lorna Dewaraja - How Could the Woman's Nature Hinder Us? ... 97 C.B. Dissanayake - Trincomalee - A Geological Curiosity ... 105 Philippe Fabry - Voyage of the King's Vessel the Breton - Extracts related to the Sojourn in the Island of Cylon with the Persian Fleet - 1672 ... 111 Ashley Halpé - I first learnt French ... 143 Thowfeeq Hassan - Intellect - A Divine Gift to Man ... 145 Stanley Kirinde - The King Narendrasinghe with Pedro Gascon, His First Adigar ... 147 Carl Muller - Mummy, Where Does Literature Come From? ... 151 Vito Perniola s.j. - The Beginnings of the Indigenous Clergy in Sri Lanka ... 157 Anne Ranasinghe - Our beginnings never know our ends ... 171 Gérard Robuchon - "One of the most venerable roots of the language" - The Root kal of Proto-Dravidian type in French Linguistic Prehistory ... 181 Bruno Saint Girons - Ayubowan ... 221 Clifford Speck - Thinking Through While The Dreams Flow By And I Don't Know Where I Am Headed ... 227 Shirley Lal Wijesinghe - Local Culture and Peacemaking in Sri Lanka ... 257 Samantha de S. Wijeyeratne - Father Martin Quéré's Twenty Christmas Tides in Iranativu ... 261 Contributors ... 269 Map ... 271