Editors: Nancy J. Curtin and Vera Kreilkamp. Senior Consulting Editors: James S. Donnelly Jr. and Philip O’Leary. Assistant Editors: James P. Leonard, M. Bowen Smith. Interns: Holly Graham, Amanda Lewis, Catherine Samiotes, Heather Taylor.

Editors’ Introduction [5]. ‘Raftery’s Killeadan’, by Seamus Heaney [9]. ‘Reviewing the Paradigm: A New Look at Early-Modern Ireland’, by Andrew Murphy [13]. ‘Being Difficult: The Irish Writer in Britain’, by Gerry Smyth [41]. ‘Was O’Connell Faithful? Ellen Courtenay Revisited’, by Erin Bishop [58]. ‘Obliquity in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian’, by Shane Murphy [76]. ‘The Academy of Christian Art (1929-1946): An Aspect of Catholic Cultural Life in Newly Independent Ireland’, by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch [102]. ‘Diplomacy as Propaganda: The Appointment of T. A. Smiddy as Irish Free State Minister to the United States’, by Troy Davis [117]. ‘“In Search of the Promised Land”: The Connemara Colonization Scheme to Minnesota, 1880’, by Gerard Moran [130]. ‘New Poems’, by Peter Fallon [150]. ‘An Essay on Ireland and J. William Fulbright’s Educational Vision’, by Bernadette Whelan [153]. ‘“Indispensable Wires”: Joyce’s Ulysses and Public Relations’, by Tim Ziaukas [176]. ‘The Enigma of Charles Gavan Duffy: Looking for Clues in Australia’, by Steven Knowlton [189]. ‘“I Thought I Was Landed!”: The Congested Districts Board and the Women of Western Ireland’, by David Smith [209]. ‘Landscape and the Celtic Soul’, by James Charles Roy [228]. Reviews and Commentary ‘From Colony to Canon: Mapping Modern Irish Literature’, by Joyce Flynn [255]. ‘Engendering the State: Narrative, Allegory, and Michael Collins’, by Luke Gibbons [261]. ‘The Northern Ireland Peace Process Reconsidered’, by Richard English [270]. Notes and Queries [277]. Cover [279]. Contributors [281]