Editor: Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Book Review Editor: Robert E. Ward. Advisory Editors: Arts: James MacKillop. Ascendancy Ireland: John Greene. Bibliography: John B. Davenport. Drama and Theatre: Christopher Murray. Gaelic Literature: Ruairí Ó hUiginn. History: Irene Whelan. Irish America: Charles Fanning. Literature: Adrian Frazier. Women’s Studies: Ellen Goodel. Editors Emerti: Eóin McKiernan (1965-86) and James J. Blake (1987-89).

Content: Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Táin Tradition in Contemporary North County Louth’, by Arthur Gribben [7]. ‘“The Health Caravan”: Domestic Education and Female Labor in Rural Ireland, 1890-1914’, by Joanna Bourke [21]. ‘An Agile Cormorant: Poetry in Ireland Today’, by Philip O’Leary [39]. ‘Lady Gregory’s Memories of Robert Gregory’, by Linda Ray Pratt [54]. ‘The Diction of Desire: Liam O’Flaherty’s "Dúil"’, by William Daniels [75]. ‘The Cult of Self-Sacrifice: The Irish Experience’, by Daniel J. O’Neil [89].

Appréciation: ‘Brian Desmond Hurst, 1895-1986: Irish Filmmaker’, by Brian McIlroy [106]. Current Themes ‘Against Nostalgia: The Year in Irish Theatre, 1989’, by Anthony Roche [114]. Books and Authors ‘“All the Sinkts in the Colander”: Finnegans Wake, 1939’, by R.J. Schork [121]. Book Reviews [131]. Notes and Queries [129]. Cover [38]