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).

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Breaking Camp: Notes on a Belfast Upbringing’, by Gerald Dawe [7]. ‘The Aristocracy of Ireland’s Ancien Régime’, by Francis G. James [16]. ‘Privileged Assimilation: Maria Edgeworth’s Hope for the Ascendancy’, by Meredith Cary [29]. ‘The Autobiographical Occult in Yeats’s "The Second Coming"’, by Jane Lindskold [38]. ‘Protocol and International Politics, 1928: The Secretary of State Goes to Ireland’, by Francis M. Carroll [45]. ‘Locke’s Swoon: Francis Stuart and the Politics of Despair’, by Jerry H. Natterstad [58]. ‘American Methodism’s Christian Advocate and Irish Catholic Immigration, 1830-1870’, by D. Gregory Van Dussen [76]. ‘“A Local Human Intensity”: The Clash of Oppositions in the Writing of J. M. Synge’, by John Glendening [100]. Books and Authors ‘Darrell Figgis’s The House of Success: A Forgotten Historical Novel’, by Alexander G. Gonzalez [118]. Book Reviews [126]. Cover [117]