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. Classics: Marianne McDonald. Drama: 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]. ‘The Céilí and the Public Dance Hall Act, 1935’, by Valerie A. Austin [7]. ‘Religious Risk in Contemporary Irish Drama’, by Jochen Achilles [17]. ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin [38]. ‘Frederic William Burton, 1816-1900: Painter and Antiquarian’, by Marie Bourke [45]. ‘An O’Connellite in Whitehall: Thomas Crofton Croker, 1798-1854’, by Neil C. Hultin and Warren U. Ober [61]. ‘“Humor with a Gender”: Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M.’, by James M. Cahalan [87].

Appréciation: ‘Séamus Ó Grianna: The Voice of the Gaeltacht’, by Nollaig MacCongáil [103]. ‘Kilneagh and Challacombe: William Trevor’s Two Nations’, by John Hildebidle [114]. ‘The Politics of Bernard Mac Laverty’s Cal’, by Stephen Watt [130]. Current Themes ‘Celtic Soul Brothers’, by Lauren Onkey [147]. Notes and Queries [159]. Cover [16].