Editor: Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Book Review Editor: James Rogers. Advisory Editors: Arts: James MacKillop. Ascendancy Ireland: John Greene. Bibliography: John B. Davenport. Classics: Marianne McDonald. Drama: Christopher Murray. Gaelic Language: James J. Blake. Gaelic Literature: Ruairí Ó hUiginn. Irish America: Charles Fanning. Literature: Adrian Frazier. Nineteenth-Century History: Irene Wbelan. Twentieth-Century History: Lawrence W. McBride. Women's Studies: Patricia Haberstroh. Editors Emeriti: Eóin Kiernan (1965-86); James J. Blake (1987-89).

Contents
Editors' Notes. [3] ‘Waiting for Mario: The Espositos, Joyce, and Beckett’, by J. Bowyer Bell [7] ‘"The English Language Belongs to Us": Irish Writing at a Tangent’, by John Cronin [27] ‘The Invisible Hand or Hands Across the Water?: American Consultants and Irish Economic Policy’, by Richard B. Finnegan and James L. Wiles. [42] ‘Dánta Úra: New Poems’, by Louis de Paor [56] ‘Jack the Giant Queller: Political Theatre in Ascendancy Dublin’, by Kevin J. Donovan [70] ‘"Rude Involvement": Boucicault, Dramatic Tradition, and Contemporary Politics’, by John P. Harrington [89] ‘A Patrick Henry in the Classroom: Margaret Haley and the Chicago Teacher's Federation’, by Janet A. Nolan [104] ‘A Bilingual Poet in Australia: Fionán Mac Cartha, 1886-1953’, by Gregory Byrnes [118] ‘"Foreign and Credible": Denis Devlin's Modernism’, by Alex Davis [131] ‘The Lingual Ideal in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’, by Deborah McWilliams Consalvo [148] ‘Tuarscáil ar Theanga: Language Report’, by James J. Blake [162] Books and Authors ‘James Clarence Mangan and the Beauty of Hate’, by Jacques Chuto [173] Book Reviews [182] Cover [117]