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

‘Historiography and the Irish Constitutional Revolution of 1782’, by Francis G. James [6]. ‘“Cétamon”: Vision in Early Irish Seasonal Poetry’, by Maria Tymoczko [17]. ‘Roots of Conflict in Ireland: Colonial Attitudes in the Age of the Penal Laws’, by Joel Berlatsky [40]. ‘Thoreau and Synge: The Cape and the Islands’, by William Daniels [57]. ‘William O’Brien: Mr. Balfour’s Prisoner’, by Beverly A. Smith [72]. Ceol: A Catalogue of Irish Music, Literature, Discs, and Tapes Collected in Ireland’, by Catherine Dower [97].

Appréciation: ‘“She Was a Part of It”: Emily Lawless (1845-1913)’, by Betty Webb Brewer [119]. Current Themes ‘William Rowan Hamilton, 1805-1865’, by Seán O’Donnell [132]. Books and Authors ‘Proper Portion: Derek Mahon’s The Hunt by Night ’, by Adrian Frazier [136]. ‘A French Connection: Iris Murdoch and Raymond Queneau’, by R. B. Kershner Jr. [144]. Book Reviews [152]. Notes and Queries [158]. Cover [16]