Editor: James J. Blake Editor Emeritus: Eóin McKiernan

Contents
‘Cover Manuscript Page’, by Fínín Ó hAllúráin, 1842 [3] ‘The American Motif in the Irish Literary Renaissance: The Old Lady's Lost Children’, by Thomas G. Evans. [4] ‘A Victorian Cromwell: Sir Charles Trevelyan, the Famine and the Age of Improvement’, by Joseph M. Hernon, Jr. [15] ‘History against Myth: Lady Gregory and Cultural Discourse’, by James F. Knapp [30] ‘King George V's Speech at Stormont (1921): Prelude to the Anglo-lrish Truce’, by Francis Costello [43] ‘Deliberate Distortions of Grail Motifs, Solar Myth, and Bird Metaphor in Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie’, by Violet M. O'Valle [58] ‘The Civil War Hungerstrikes: Women and Men’, by Charlotte Fallon [75] ‘The Church, Education and Control of the State in Ireland’, by Patricia Twomey Ryan [92] Appréciation ‘Emily Lawless's Grania: The Story of an Island (1892)’, by Elizabeth Grubgeld [115] ‘The Achievement of Darrell Figgis's Children of Earth: Realism and Folk Custom’, by Alexander Gonzalez [129] Books and Authors ‘Who was Red Hanrahan?’, by Peter Alderson Smith [144] Current Themes ‘Asylums and Other "Total Institutions" in Ireland: Recent Studies’, by Elizabeth Malcolm [151]