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

Contents
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]