Contents: Obituary Barbara Hayley [183] Francis Doherty Watt in an Irish Frame [187] Gerardine Meaney Long Day's Journey into Night: Modernism, Post-Modernism and Maternal Loss [204] Mark Lane Theatrical Space and National Place in Four Plays by Thornas Murphy [219] lacqueline Genet Yeats's Purgatory: A Re-Assessrnent [229] Lis Pihl Literary Links: Five Letters from Lady Gregory to Frands Hackett and Signe Toksvig [245] H. Custav Klaus "The sore frailty of this lasting cause": Some Celtic Versions of Spanish Civil War Poetry [268] Bernard O'Donoghue Croke Park or Ballylee, 1989 [285] Fred johnston At The Circus [287] Letter from America [287] Mark Hutcheson The Dream [289] Padraig Rooney The Duration of Burning [290] The Names [291] lames Liddy Vir [293] Sergeant Valentine Function, at Hollyfort [293] Helena Sheehan Writing and the Zeitgeist: Reflections on the Dublin Festival of Literature, 1991 [295] IASAIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1990 [307] Reviews by: Breandan 0 Madagjin, Christopher Murray, Peter Denman, James McCabe, Michael Lloyd, Desmond Egan, Christina Hunt Mahony, June K. Davison, I.M. Bell, Peter B. Callagher, Cormac 0 GrAda, Eunan O'Flalpin [367] List of books reviewed: [398] Books Received [399]