Editors: Vera Kreilkamp, Nancy J. Curtin. Senior Consulting Editors: James S. Donnelly, Philip O'Leary. Assistant Editors: Elizabeth Kunz, James P. Leonard.

Contents
Editors' Introduction [5] ‘Getting the Picture: On Dermot Seymour's Painting The Russians Will Water Their Horses on the Shores of Laugh Neagh’, by Seamus Heaney [9] ‘Primavera’, by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill [13] ‘Who Owns Irish Art?’, by Fintan Cullen [15] ‘Irish Visual Culture: A Policy Review’, by Anne Kelly [22] ‘The Irish Collection in the National Gallery of Ireland’, by Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch [38] ‘A New Light on the Sheela-na-gig’, by Barbara Freitag [50] ‘The Four Erins: Feminine Images of Ireland, 1780-1900’, by L. Perry Curtis, Jr. [70] ‘Visualizing the Liberator: Self-Fashioning, Dramaturgy, and the Construction of Daniel O'Connell’, by Gary Owens [103] ‘The Big House’, by Vona Groarke [130] ‘Lines of Resistance: The O'Kelly Brothers in the Sudan’, by Niamh O'Sullivan [131] ‘Mary Farl Powers (1948-1992): American Person, Irish Artist’, by Katherine Powers [157] ‘Gaol/Gaol: Re-viewing Silences in Kilmainham Gaol’, by Kathleen O'Brien [173] ‘From the Poetic to the Political’, by Declan McGonagle [189] Front Cover ‘Hair Pieces: Alice Maher's Recent Art’, by Adele Dalsimer and Vera Kreilkamp [191] ‘Interview with Alice Maher’, by Alston Conley [198] Back Cover ‘Dorothy Cross, Beyond Feminism’, by Robin Lydenberg [212] ‘Sensing the Sculpture of Kathy Prendergast: A Portrait of the Female Life Cycle’, by Sheila Dickinson [227] ‘Ciarán Lennon's Hidden Scripts’, by Katherine Harding Nahum [234] ‘All in the Mind? Photographing the Border’, by Bill Rolston [245] ‘Insiders and Frontiers: Paul Seawright's Images of "The Troubles"’, by Alvin Jackson [255] ‘Six Artists in Search of a Landscape’, by Caoimhíln Mac Giolla Léith [266] ‘Vitruviana’, by Seamus Heaney [286] ‘Felim Egan: A Catalogue Note’, by Seamus Heaney [287] Reviews and Commentary ‘"When Time Began to Rant and Rage": Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland: A Review Essay’, by Robert Tracy [288] ‘The Life of Jack Yeats’, by Bruce Arnold [302] ‘After Michelangelo’, by Derek Mahon [309] Notes and Queries ‘The Francis Bacon Studio’, by Barbara Dawson [310] ‘From the Irish American Cultural Institute’ [313] Contributors [315]