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]