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

Contents
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]