Editor Emeritus: Eóin McKiernan. Guest Editor: James J. Blake.

Contents
‘Ireland: Land of Change’, by T. K. Whitaker [4] ‘John O'Keeffe as an Irish Playwright within the Theatrical, Social and Economic Context of His Time’, by Karen J. Harvey and Kevin B. Pry [19] ‘Dublin and Musical Culture in the Eighteenth Century’, by Catherine A. Dower [44] ‘Thomas Flanagan's The Year of the French: A Cautionary Tale’, by Catherine Ward [59] ‘Public Reaction to the Introduction of a New Police Force: Dublin 1838-45’, by Nigel Cochrane [72] ‘Comic Form and Historic Nightmare in Carleton's Emigrants of Ahadarra’, by Maureen Waters [86] ‘The Landed Classes, the Orange Order and the Anti-Land League Campaign in Ulster 1880-1881’, by Francis Thompson [102] ‘Patriarchy and the Female in Lady Gregory's Grania’, by Linda Mizejewski [122] ‘Structure and Theme in John McGahern's The Pornographer’, by Suzanne J. Fournier [139] Current Themes ‘The Works of William Dargan’, by Seán O'Donnell [151] Books and Authors ‘A Bibliography of William Allingham’, by Samira Aghacy Husni [155] Book Reviews [158] Cover [43]