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. Women’s Studies: Patricia Haberstroh. Editors Emeriti: Eóin McKiernan (1965-86); James J. Blake (1987-89).

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Who Fears to Speak?: The Newry Proclamation, 1916’, by Colman O’Hare [7]. ‘St. Patrick’s Day in “The Other Emerald Isle”’, by John C. Messenger [12]. ‘Horses and Hospitals: The Irish Sweepstakes’, by Rosemarie McDonald [24]. ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Patrick Galvin [35]. ‘“Executed:" The Political Sculpture of Albert G. Power’, by Sílghle Bhreathnach-Lynch [44]. ‘The American Congress for Irish Freedom, 1967-70’, by Andrew A. Wilson [61]. ‘Rural Irishwomen: Their Changing Role, Status, and Condition’, by Amy J. Wiemers [76]. ‘Violent Impotence and Impotent Violence: Brendan Behan’s The Hostage’, by Michael Patrick Gillespie [92]. ‘The Attic LIPs: Feminist Pamphleteering for the New Ireland’, by Kate Martin Gray [105]. ‘Ancient Lights in the Poetry of Austin Clarke and Thomas Kinsella’, by Maurice Harmon [123]. Books and Authors ‘Circles Radiating: The Poetry of Patrick Galvin’, by Greg Delanty [41]. Book Reviews [150]. Cover [40]