Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal (Winter 1997/Spring 1998). CONTENTS: Thomas Kilroy, The Anglo-Irish Theatrical Imagination’ [5]; Joanna Bourke, ‘“Irish Tommies”: The Construction of a Martial Manhood 1914-1918’ [13]; Daniel Albright, 'Beckett as Marsyas: Music and Modernism in Beckett’ [31]; Oliver Rafferty, S.J., 'The Catholic Church and Fenianism, 1861-1870: Some Irish and American Perspectives.’ [47]; Marilynn Richtarik, 'Counterparts: James Joyce and Stewart Parker’ [71]; John McCafferty, 'St Patrick for the Church of Ireland: James Ussher’s Discourse’ [87]; Cormac O Grada, 'New Perspectives on the Irish Famine’ [103].

REVIEW ARTICLES: Elizabeth Butler Cullingford on R. F. Foster, “A Life, The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914” in W. B. Yeats; a Life, Vol. 1’ [117]; Joanna Bourke on Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery, eds., A Military History of Ireland; Thomas P. Dooley, Irishmen or English Soldiers?: The Times and World of a Southern Catholic Irish Man (1876-1916) Enlisting in the British Army during the First World War and M. L. R. Smith, Fighting for Ireland?: The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement [123]; Terry Eagleton on Joep Leerssen, Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, Seamus Deane, Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 [129].

REVIEWS: Shaun Richards, review of Luke Gibbons, Transformations in Irish Culture, Marjorie Howes, and Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness [139]; Frank Callanan, review of Paul Bew, Ideology and the Irish Question: Irish Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916, Paul Bew, John Redmond, and Terence Denman, A Lonely Grave: The Life and Death of William Redmond [144]; Deirdre McMahon, review of Jim Ring, The Riddle of Erskine Childers: Author of “The Riddle of the Sands” [147]; Willy Maley, review of Thomas C. Hofheinz, Joyce and the Invention of Irish History: “Finnegans Wake” in Context, and Emer Nolan, James Joyce and Nationalism’ [150]; JAMES PETHICA, review of Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeats’s Political Identities: Selected Essays [152]

Bullán, An Irish Studies Journal, 4, 1 (Autumn 1998), 150pp. CONTENTS: Thomas Bartlett, ‘Ulster 1600-2000: Posing the Question?’ [5]; Robert Sullivan, ‘John Toland’s Druids: A Mythopoeia of Celtic Identity’ [19]; Catriona Clutterbuck, ‘Gender and Self-Representation in Irish Poetry: The Critical Debate’ [43]; Patrick Maume, ‘In the Fenians’ Wake: Ireland’s Nineteenth-Century Crises and Their Representation in the Sentimental Rhetoric of William O’Brien MP and Canon Sheehan’ [59]; Christopher J. Wheatley, ‘“Our own good, plain, old Irish English”: Charles Macklin (Cathal McLaughlin) and Protestant Convert Accommodations’ [81]; Patrick Hanafin, ‘Same Text, Different Story: Reinterpreting Irish Constitutional Identity’ [103].

REVIEW ARTICLE: Steven Connor, review of James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, and Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist [121].

REVIEWS: Marjorie Howes, review of James Pethica, ed., Lady Gregory’s Diaries 1892-1902 [127]; Toby Barnard, review of Ann C. Kavanaugh, John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare: Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland, and Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798 [129]; Sean Ryder, review of John N. Molony, A Soul Came Into Ireland: Thomas Davis, 1814-1845, and Ellen Shannon-Mangan, James Clarence Mangan: A Biography [133]; Catherine Nash, review of David Brett, The Construction of Heritage, Jim Mac Laughlin, ed., Location and Dislocation in Contemporary Irish Society: Emigration and Irish Identities, and Cheryl Temple Herr, Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies: From Ireland to the Midwest [138]; Patrick Maume, review of James H. Murphy, Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland 1873-1922, Ruth Fleischmann, Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival: A Study of Canon Sheehan, 1852-1913, and Mike Cronin, The Blueshirts and Irish Politics [142]; Peter Gray, review of Robert J. Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration, and Christine Kinealy, This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-1852 [146] .