Contents: Christopher Murray, ‘Introduction: Stirring the Pot Withershins’ [1]; Luke Gibbons, ‘"Some Hysterical Hatred": History, Hysteria and the Literary Revival’ [7]; Eibhear Walshe, ‘"Angels of Death": Wilde’s Salome and Shaw’s Saint Joan’ [24]; Patricia Lynch, ‘A Stylistic Approach to Irish Writing’ [33]; Shaun Richards, ‘Placed Identities for Placeless Times: Brian Friel and Post-Colonial Criticism’ [55]; Ciaran Benson, ‘The Artist and Society: Krino, 1986-1996, [69]; Anne McCartney, ‘"Transported into the Company of Women": A Feminist Critique of Francis Stuart’ [74]; S. J. Caterson Joyce, ‘The Kunstlerroman and Minor Literature: Francis Stuart’s Black List, Section H’ [87]; Conor MacCarthy, ‘Ideology and Geography in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home’ [98]; Jefferson Holdridge, ‘Heart’s Victim and its Torturer: Yeats and the Poetry of Violence 111]; Poetry Eamon Grennan, ‘On Ward’s Island’, ‘Toronto’ [130]; ‘Simile’ [131]; Steam [131]; Denis Cotter, ‘The Breast of Blessing’ [132]; Sean Lysaght, ‘Extracts from a Version of "Diarmuid and Grania"’ [133]; Brian John, ‘The Achievement of Michael Longley’s The Ghost Orchid’ [139]; Lionel Pilkington, ‘"Every Crossing Sweeper Thinks Himself a Moralist": The Critical Role of Audiences in Irish Theatrical History’ [152]; Vic Merriman, ‘Centring the Wanderer: Europe as Active Imaginary in Contemporary Irish Theatre’ [166]; Wolfgang R. Sanger, ‘The "favourite Russian novelist" in William Trevor’s Novella Reading Turgenev: A Postmodern Tribute to Realism’ [182]. Book Reviews by Christopher Murray, Giovanna Tallone, Anthony Roche, John Loftus, Ben Barnes, Raphael F. McElligott [199]. List of Books Reviewed[ 214]. Books Received [215]