Contents: Christopher Murray Editorial vii John O'Meara Guardians of Truth 1 A.M. Gibbs "Giant Brain ...No Heart": Bernard Shaw's Reception in Criticism and Biography [15] Brian Cosgrove Male Sexuality and Female Rejection: Persistent Irony in Joyce's lIThe Dead" [37] Anne Clune Mythologising Sweeney [48] Jonathan Hufstader Coming to Consciousness by Jumping in Graves: Heaney's Bog Poems and the Politics of North [61] Paul Keen "Making Strange/': Conversations with the Irish MI Other [75] New Poetry Lucy Brennan Gifts [88] Sweeney perse [88] Tom Maclntyre Audit, Sixty [90] Fred Johnston The Fall [91] James W. Flannery Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of W.B. Yeats [92] H. Gustav Klaus The Authorship of the Somhairle Macalastair Ballads [107] Ake Persson Betraying the Age: Brendan Kennelly's Mission [118] Maria Cristina "Station Island": Seamus Heaney's Divina Fumagalli Commedia [127] Brian McIlroy When the Ulster Protestant and Unionist Looks: Spectatorship in (Northern) Irish Cinema [143] Robert Hogan The Brave Timidity of. T.C. Murray [155] Jose Lanters Violence and Sacrifice in Brian Friel's The Gentle Island and Wonderful Tennessee [163] Reviews by: Ulf Dantanus, Anthony Roche, Cormac 6 Grcida, Maurice Harmon, Rosemary Thomas, Peter Van de Kamp, John Fanagan, Charles Foran, T.P. Dolan, Nuala McDowell, Martin D. Bates [177] List of Books Reviewed [198] Books Received [199]