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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘The Tudors and the Stewarts: American Ancestors of Charles Stewart Parnell’, by Jane Côté [7] ‘Athlone's John Broderick’, by Patrick Murray [20] ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Peter Fallon [40] ‘Nelson Mandela's Irish Problem: Republican and Loyalist Links with South Africa, 1970-1990’, by Richard Davis [47] ‘"Handcuffs Off": Jack B. Yeats and Other Painters’, by Hilary Pyle [69] ‘Sir Edward Sullivan's Book of Kells and Joyce's Finnegans Wake’, by Vern Lindquist [78] ‘The Politics of Comedy in At Swim-Two-Birds’, by Joseph Devlin [91] ‘Acts of Union: Seamus Heaney's Tropes of Sex and Marriage’, by Jonathan Allison [106] Current Themes ‘The Illinois and Michigan Canal: Historical Archaeology and the Irish Experience in America’, by Charles E. Orser, Jr. [122] Book Reviews [135] Notes and Queries [140] Cover [105]