Editor: Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Book Review Editor: James Rogers. 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. Womens Studies: Patricia Haberstroh. Editors Emeriti: Eóin McKiernan (1965-86); James J. Blake (1987-89).

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Conscience of Ireland: Lalor, Davitt, and Sheehy-Skeffington’, by David Krause [7]. ‘“Not To Be Written Afterwards”: The Irish Revolution in the Irish Short Story’, by Michael Storey [32]. ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Sean Lucy [48]. ‘A Fearful People: Religion and the Ulster Conflict’, by Ronald A. Wells [53]. ‘English Colonialism and National Identity in Early Modern Ireland’, by Andrew Hadfield [69]. ‘The Mercy of Silence: William Trevor’s Fools of Fortune’, by Celeste Loughman [87]. ‘Irish Criminal Records, 1865-1892’, by Carolyn A. Conley [97]. ‘“The Very Worst Hour of the Day”: Betrayal and Bloom in Joyce’s "Lestrygonians"’, by L. Layne Neeper [107]. Current Themes ‘“Local Differences”: Ireland in the Mosaic of Europe’, by Maurice Hayes [121]. Books and Authors ‘J. G. Farrell: An Annotated Bibliography’, by Ralph J. Crane [136]. Book Reviews [149]. Notes and Queries [158]. Cover [131].