Contents: Nicholas Grene The Maturing of Immaturity: Shaw's First Novel [225] Patrick Sheeran and Myths of Irishness: The Fornorian Nina Witoszek Connection [239] 1. Th. Leerssen On the Treatment of Irishness in Romantic Anglo-lrish Fiction [251] Maria Tyrnoczko Molly's Gibraltar and the Morphology of the Irish Otherworld [264] Lionel Pilkington Language and Politics in Brian Friel's Translations [282] Andrew Smith Gerard Manley Hopkins as a Classicist [297] Micheal O'Siadhail Journeys Hail! Madame jazz [318] Sheila 0Wagan Ariadne [319] Leo McNamara Athena Speaks to Wittgenstein Collaboration [320] IASAIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1989 [321] Reviews by: Maurice Harmon, Terence Brown, Augustine Martin, J.C.C. Mays, Peter Liebregs, Gerry Forster, Peter van de Kamp, Leo McNamara, Peter Denman, Scan Ryder, H.M. Dockrell, Michael Haren, H.B. Clarke, Leo Carruthers, Cormac O'Grida, Gerardine Meaney. [375] Books Received [412]