Editor: Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Book Review Editor: Robert E. Ward. Advisory Editors: Architecture: Roger Conover. 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. Political Science: Desmond Dinan. Women’s Studies: Patricia Haberstroh. Editors Emeriti: Eóin McKiernan (1965-86); James J. Blake (1987-89).

Contents: Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Rise and Fall of the Protestant Nation, 1690-1800’, by Thomas Bartlett [7]. ‘An Ball Uaigneach Seo: Attachment to Place in Gaelic Literature’, by Robbie Hannan [19]. ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Michael Davitt [32]. ‘John Fitzpatrick, 1871-1946: American Labor Leader’, by L. A. O’Donnell [42]. ‘The Tarot in Yeats’s Stories of Red Hanrahan’, by Kathryn Sullivan Kruger [62]. ‘Wake Homes: Modern Novels of the lrish-American Family’, by Catherine Ward [78]. Current Themes ‘Natural Science and Irish Culture’, by John Wilson Foster [92]. Books and Authors ‘“Orphaned Like Us”: Memory in the Poetry of Thomas McCarthy’, by James Naiden [104]. Book Reviews [120]. Cover [18]. Notes and Queries [142]