Editors: Nancy J. Curtin, Vera Kreilkamp. Senior Consulting Editors: James S Donnelly Jr., Philip O’Leary. Assistant Editors: Elizabeth Kunz, James P. Leonard. Editorial Assistant: Holly Graham.

Editors’ Introduction [3]. ‘Daughters of Colony’, [poem]. by Eavan Boland [7]. ‘Daughters of Colony: A Personal Interpretation of the Place of Gender Issues in the Postcolonial Interpretation of Irish Literature’, by Eavan Boland [9]. ‘Interpreting Silences: An Anthropological Perspective on the Great Irish Famine’, by Joan Vincent [21]. ‘From Nationalism to "Baby X”: An Interview with Northern Irish Filmmaker Margo Harkin’, by Megan Sullivan [40]. ‘Recapturing the Flag: The Campaign to Repeal the Party Processions Act, 1860-1872’, by Sean Farrell [52]. ‘“No, This is Not From The Bell”: Brian O’Nolan’s 1943 Cruiskeen Lawn Anthology’, by Steven Curran [79]. ‘Fianna Fáil, Constitutional Republicanism, and the Issue of Consent: 1980-1996’, by Gareth Ivory [93]. ‘Unsound Plots: Culture and Politics in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland’, by Glenn Hooper [117]. ‘The Chaplaincy Question: The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Versus the Belfast Lunatic Asylum’, by Pauline Prior and David Griffiths [137]. ‘Propaganda of Dáil Éireann: from Truce to Treaty’, by Keiko Inoue [154]. ‘The Belfast Group: A Recollection’, by Philip Hobsbaum [173]. Reviews and Commentary ‘W.B. Yeats: Endings and Beginnings: A Review Essay’, by Declan Kiberd [183]. ‘A Provincial Passion: Cleansing Irish Literature of Irishness’, by Desmond Fennell [192]. Notes and Queries [204]. Cover Stepping Out: Reading Rita Duffy’s Dancer’, by Adele Dalsimer and Vera Kreilkamp [208]. Contributors [218]