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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Ulster and Home Rule for Ireland, to 1914’, by Teresa O’Donovan [6]. ‘Boucicault and Whitbread: The Dublin Stage at the End of the Nineteenth Century’, by Stephen M. Watt [23]. ‘The Irish Whigs and the Regency Crisis in Ireland, 1788-89’, by Denis Kennedy [54]. ‘Thomas Amory, John Buncle, and the Origins of Irish Fiction’, by Ian Campbell Ross [71]. ‘The Hungry Grass: Richard Power’s Pastoral Elegy’, by James MacKillop [86]. ‘Past Tense, Present Tension: Protestant Poetry and Ulster History’, by Stewart Roulston [100]. Current Themes ‘First Irishmen’, by Seán O’Donnell [124]. Books and Authors ‘Portrait of a Young Man as Survivor: Victor Power’s Short Stories’, by William J. Feeney [127]. Book Reviews [136]. Notes and Queries [157]