Contents: Notes and Comments’ [vi]; Fidelma Farley, ‘Interrogating Myths of Maternity in Irish Cinema: Margo Harkin’s Hush-a-Bye Baby’ [219]; Bruce Stewart, ‘"Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Possessed by the Spirit of the Nation’ [238]; Phyllis Gaffney, ‘Dante, ‘Manzoni, ‘De Valera, ‘Beckett? Circumlocutions of a Storekeeper: Beckett and Saint-Lô’ [256]; Moonyung Chung, ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Beckett: Footfalls and Rockaby’ [281]; Awam Amkpa, ‘Drama and the Language of Postcolonial Desire: Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion’ [294]; Vic Merriman, ‘Decolonisation Postponed: The Theatre of Tiger Trash’ [305]. NEW POETRY [318-20]: Howard Wright, ‘"Above the Clouds"’ [318] "Feast"’ [318]; Knute Skinner, "A Hush" [319]; Thomas McCarthy, "At the Ordination of Father Layton, 1800" [320]; John Goodby, ‘"The Prouder Counsel of her Throat": Towards a Feminist Reading of Austin Clarke’ [321]; Patrick Walsh, ‘"Too Much Alone": John Hewitt, ‘Regionalism, ‘Socialism and Partition’ [341]; Tim Hancock, ‘Seamus Heaney: Poet of Tension or Poet of Conviction?’ [358]. IASIL Bibliography 1998’ [376-405]. Catriona Clutterbuck, review-article, ‘Eavan Boland and the Trustworthiness of Treachery’ [The Lost Land, 1998]. Book reviews: Philip Tilling [Terence Patrick Dolan, A Dictionary of Hiberno-English]; Christopher Murray [Maurice Harmon, ed., No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider’]; Wanda Balzano [Nick Havely, ed., Dante’s Modern Afterlife: Reception and Response from Blake to Heaney]; Douglas Archibald [Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996]; Derek Hand [Vera Kreilkamp, The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House]; Richard Pine [W. J. McCormack, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture]; Moynagh Sullivan [Medbh McGuckian, Shelmalier]; Brian Arkins [William H. O’Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald, eds., The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, ‘Volume III: Autobiographies]; Shaun Richards [Richard Pine, The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel]; Derek Hand [Robert Tracy, The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identity]; Douglas Archibald [Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney]; Mary E. Daly [Margaret Ward, Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington].