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. Irish America: Charles Fanning. Literature: Adrian Frazier. Nineteenth-Century History: Irene Whelan. Political Science: Desmond Dinan. Twentieth-Century History: Laurence W. McBride. Womens Studies: Patricia Haberstroh. Editors Emeriti: Eóin McKiernan (1965-86); James J. Blake (1987-89).

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Mullaghareirk: Aspects in Perspective’, by Eithne Strong [7]. ‘Growing Up on a “Sacrificial Society”: Northern Ireland in Adolescent Fiction’, by Barry Sloan [16]. ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Eithne Strong [28]. ‘Commerce and the Celtic Revival: Victorian Irish Jewelry’, by Elizabeth McCrum [36]. ‘Michael O’Riordan’s La Recente lnsurrezione in lrlanda, 1916’, by Thomas R. Greene [53]. ‘Lay Women and Philanthropy in Dublin, 1860-1880’, by Margaret H. Preston [74]. ‘“Cute Thinking Woman”: The Language of Synge’s Female Vagrants’, by Jane Duke Elkins [86]. ‘“Missouri Sequence”: Brian Coffey’s St. Louis Years, 1947-1952’, by Jack Morgan [100]. ‘The Grotesqueries of Paul Muldoon, “Immram” to Madoc’, by William A. Wilson [115]. Books and Authors ‘The "Common Ground" of Eamon Grennan’, by Deborah Fleming [133]. Book Reviews [150]. Cover [73].