Contents: Anne Fogarty Introduction [203] Bernhard Klein The Lie of the Land: English Surveyors, Irish Rebels and The Faerie Queene [207] John Breen The Faerie Queene, Book I and the Theme of Protestant Exile [226] Eilean Ni Chuilleantiin "Forged and Fabulous Chronicles": Reading Spenser as an Irish Writer [237] Nicholas Canny Reviewing A View of the Present State of Ireland [252] Sheila T. Cavanagh "Licentious Barbarism": Spenser's View of the Irish and The Faerie Queene [268] Clare Carroll Spenser and the Irish Language: The Sons of Milesio in A View of the Present State of Ireland, The Faerie Queene, Book V, and the Leabhar Gabhtila [281] Andrew Hadfield Another Look at Serena and Irena [291] Willy Maley "To Weet to Work Irenaes Franchisement" : Ireland in The Faerie Queene [303] Patricia Coughlan The Local Context of Mutabilitie's Plea [320] Willy Maley Spenser and Ireland: An Annotated Bibliography 1986-96 [342] IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1995 [354] Reviews by: Jean Dunne, H. Morgan Dockrell, Christopher Murray, Brian Donnelly, T .P .Dolan [378] List of Books Reviewed [387] Books Received [388]