Editor: Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Book Review Editor: Robert E. Ward. Advisory Editors: Architecture: Roger Conover. Arts: James MacKillop. Ascendancy Ireland: John Greene. Bibliography: John B. Davenport. Drama and Theatre: Christopher Murray. Gaelic Literature: Ruairí Ó hUiginn. History: Irene Whelan. Irish America: Charles Fanning. Literature: Adrian Frazier. Political Science: Desmond Dinan. Womens Studies: Ellen Goodell. Editors Emeriti: Eóin McKiernan (1965-86); James J. Blake (1987-89).

 

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘Five Summer Afternoons’, by Thomas McCarthy [7] ‘From Lost Land to Emerald Isle: Ireland and the Irish in American Sheet Music, 1800-1920’, by William H. A. Williams [19] ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Greg Delanty [46] ‘A Pádraic Pearse Letter edited’, by Sean Reid and Alfred Isacsson [52] ‘The Voting Behavior of the Independent Irish Party, 1850-59’, by Steven R. Knowlton [57] ‘The Bicycle and Descartes: Epistemology in the Fiction of Beckett and O'Brien’, by M. Keith Booker [76] Appréciation ‘Far-Seeing Gifts: Hubert Butler, 1900-1991’, by W. J. McCormack [95] Current Themes ‘The Year in Irish Theatre, 1990’, by Anthony Roche [101] Books and Authors ‘A Migrant Mind in a Mobile Home: Salmon Publishing in the Ireland of the 1990s’, by Victor Luftig [108] Book Reviews [120] Cover [142] Notes and Queries [43]