Contents: Peter Denman Introduction [1] Frank McCuinness A Voice from the Trees: Thomas Kilroy"s Version of Chekhov's The Seagull [3] Michael Cronin Babel's Suburbs: Irish Verse Translation in the 1980s [15] Biddy lenkinson A Letter to an Editor [27] Mdire Ni Annrachdin The Highland Connection: Scottish Reverberations in Irish Literary Identity [35] Gerald Dawe Three Poems [48] Corinna del Greco Lobner A Tilly of Irony in Joyce's "Divine Comedy": The X in "Grace" [50] Cecelia Scallan Zeiss Myth and Metamorphosis: Landscape as Archetype in Quest Narratives by Samuel Beckett and Wilma Stockenstrbm [56] Sedn Lysaght Banville's Tetralogy: The Limits of Mimesis [82] Paddy Bushe Poem [101] Eamon Grennan Three Poems [103] Bill Tinley International Perspectives in the Poetry of Derek Mahon [106] William Hodder Ferguson's "The Fairy Thorn": A Critique John Pikoulis Louis MacNeice in the Thirties: The Minute After the Minute After the Minute After [130] Christopher Murray "Cover Story": An Afterword [147] Reviews by: Anthony Roche, Robert Welch, Peter Denman, John Red mend, Leo McNamara, Ulf Dantanus, Rachel Hands, Eamon O'Flaherty, Peter van de Kamp, Leo Carruthers, Harry White, John O'Grady, Peter J. Lucas [150] List of Books Reviewed [179] Books Received [180]