Editors: Nancy J. Curtin and Vera Kreilkamp. Senior Consulting Editors: James S. Donnell and Philip O'Leary. Assistant Editors: Elizabeth Kunz and James P. Leonard. Interns: Kirsten Athena Blockel; Tanya Duane, Cindy Palmquist, and Robin Umbley.

Contents
Editor's lntroduction [3] ‘Rebel Motives and Mentalities: The Battle for New Ross, 5 June 1798’, by Tom Dunne [5] ‘The Contest of Memory: The Continuing Impact of 1798 Commemoration’, by Peter Collins [28] ‘Speaking of '98: Young Ireland and Republican Memory’, by Sean Ryder [51] ‘Rebels in the Dock: The Prosecution of the Dublin Fenians, 1865-6’, by R. W. Kostal [70] ‘Parallel Struggles: Irish Republicanism in the American South, 1798-1876’, by David T. Gleeson [97] ‘Nationalist Constructions of the 1798 Rebellion: The Political Illustrations of J. D. Reigh’, by Lawrence W. McBride [117] ‘Rebel, Muse, and Spouse: The Female in '98 Fiction’, by Eileen Reilly [135] ‘Young Ireland, Arthur Griffith, and Republican Ideology: The Question of Continuity’, by Patrick Maume [155] Cover [175] Notes and Queries [176] Contributors [180]