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.

Contents
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]