Editor: Eóin McKiernan. Associate Editors: Henry F. Beechhold and Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Assistant Editors: Seán McMahon and Lawrence O’Shaughnessy.

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Good Old Pat: An Irish-American Stereotype in Decline’, by Kathleen Donovan [6]. ‘Reconstruction, Reform, and Romanism, 1865-85: America as Seen’, by Charles O’Conor and Charles Owen O’Conor Don, M.P.’, by Janet E. Dunleavy and Gareth W. Dunleavy [15]. ‘“There’s Talking for a Cute Woman!”: Synge’s Heroines’, by F. A. E. Whelan and Keith N. Hull [36]. ‘Yeats and Revolutionary Nationalism: The Centenary of '98'’, by Peter A. Quinn [47]. ‘The Helens of Gustave Moreau and Jack B. Yeats: Influence or Parallel?’, by Marilyn Gaddis Rose [65]. ‘Synge’s Pros and Verse in Vita Vecchia’, by Declan Kiberd [75]. ‘“That Red Branch Bum Was the Camel’s Back”: Beckett’s Use of Yeats in Murphy’, by John P. Harrington [86]. ‘Psyche and Belief: Brian Moore’s Contending Angels’, by Michael J. Toolan [97]. Current Themes ‘Keane to Begin’, by Desmond Rush [112]. ‘No Real Energy Alternatives’, by Seán O’Donnell [116] Books and Authors ‘Re-Membering: Irish Poetry After Yeats’, by Kevin P. Reilly [120]. ‘Richard Murphy’s Connemara Locale’, by Mark Kilroy [127]. ‘Place and Meaning in Brian Moore’s Catholics’, by Allen Shepherd [134]. Book Reviews [141]. Notes and Queries [158]