Contents: Anthony Roche, Introduction: The Worlds of Brian Friel [vii]; Seamus Heaney, The Real Names [1];; Harry White, Brian Friel and the Condition of Music [6]; Christopher Murray Friel and O’Casey Juxtaposed 16]; George O’Brien ‘Meet Brian Friel’: The Irish Press Columns [30]; Patrick Burke, ‘Them Class of People’s a Very Poor Judge of Character’: Friel and the South [42]; Helen Lojek, Brian Friel’s Gentle Island of Lamentation [48]; Frank McGuinness, Faith Healer: All the Dead Voices [60]; Robert Tracy The Russian Connection: Friel and Chekhov [64]; Brian Friel, From Uncle Vanya: A Version of the Play by Anton Chekhov [78]; Thomas Kilroy, Friendship [111]; Anna McMullan, ‘In Touch with Some Otherness’: Gender, Authority and the Body in Dancing at Lughnasa [90]; Catriona Clutterbuck Lughnasa after Easter: Treatments of Narrative Imperialism in Friel and Devlin [101]; Csilla Bertha, Six Characters in Search of a Faith: The Mythic and the Mundane in Wonderful Tennessee [119]; Nicholas Grene, Friel and Transparency [136]; Anthony Roche, Frield and Synge:Towards a Theatrical Language [145]; Jose Lanters, Brian Friel’sUncertainy Principle [ 162]; Richard Pine, Love: Brian Friel’s give Me Your Answer, Do! Books reviewed: Harry White, The Keeper’s Recital: Musical and Cultural history in Ireland, 1770-1970 (Cork UP 1998), 227pp. [Anthony Roche]; Jerusha McCormack, ed., Wilde the Irishman (New Haven &London: Yale UP 1998), xvi, 205pp. [Jonathan Raby]; John Harrinton, the Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874-1966 (Kentucky UP 1997), 192pp. [Christopher Murray]; Clive Hart, C. George Sandalescu, Bonnie Scott Kime, and Fritz Senn, Images of Joyce, 2 vols. [Princess Grace irish Library], Series ed., Bruce Stewart (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe: 1998). [Bran Arkins]; Kathleen Devine and Alan J. Peacock, eds., Louis Macneice ahd His Infulence (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1998), xvi, 184pp. [Sabrina D’Allessandro]; Leland Bardwell, the White Beach: New and Selected Poems 1960-1998 (Knockeven: Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry [1988]), 113pp.; Clair Wills, Reading Paul Muldoon (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1999), 222pp. [Jefferson Holderidge]; T. Ryle, Dwyer, Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and de Valera (Dublin: Gill & Macmillian, 1998).