Contents: Christopher Murray, ‘Slan’ [vii]; Adolphe Haberer, Yeats and MacNeice: From Context to Intertext [219]; David Krause, Review Article: The Reinvention of Ireland [236]; Kevin McNeilly, Cultural Morphologies: Yeats, Spengler and Adorno [245]; Natalie Crohn Schmitt, The Landscape Play: W. B. Yeats’s Purgatory [262]; John Adames, The Sonnet Mirror: Reflections and Revaluations in Seamus Heaney’s "Clearances" [276]; Maurice Harmon, From Conversations with Mary Lavin [287]. NEW POETRY: James Liddy, Being a Jacobite [293]; Susan Schreibmann, Journey to Houncecourt Wood [295]. Lis Christensen, A Reading of Elizabeth Bowen’s "A Day in the Dark" [299]; John O’Meara, On the Fringe of Letters [310]; Annual IASIL Bibliography; Bulletin 1996 [325]; Book Reviews by: T. P. Dolan, G.A. Lester, Robert Hogan,]; Anthony Roche, John Kenny, Hermann Rasche, Christopher Murray, Giovanna Tallone [360]; List of Books Reviewed [377]; Books Received [378].