Contents: Anthony Roche, Introduction [vii]; Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Exilic Returns: Self and History Outside Ireland in Recent Irish Fiction [1]; Brian Donnelly, Roddy Doyle: From Barrytown to the GPO [17]; Elke d’Hoker, Books of Revelation: Epiphany in John Banville’s Science Tetralogy and Birchwood [32]; John Scaggs, Who is Francie Pig? Self-Identity and Narrative Reliability in The Butcher Boy, [51]; Anne Fogarty, Uncanny Families: Neo-Gothic Motifs and the Theme of Social Change in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction [59]; Michael Parker, Shadows on a Glass: Self-Reflexivity in the Fiction of Deirdre Madden [82] ; Derek Hand, Being Ordinary - Ireland from Elsewhere: A Reading of Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s The Bray House [103]; Laura Pelaschiar, Transforming Belfast: The Evolving Role of the City in Northern Irish Fiction [117]; Dermot McCarthy, Belfast Babel: Postmodern Lingo in Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man [132]; Liam Harte, History Lessons: Postcolonialism and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark [149]; Gerry Smyth Shite and Sheep: An Ecocritical Perspective on Two Recent Irish Novels [163]. Book reviews: Hugo Hamilton, Sad Bastard, reviewed by Gerry Smyth [179-81]; Dora Murphy, Sotto gli Occhi di uno Shirro, trans. into Italian and ed. by Rosangela Barone, reviewed by Giovanna Tallone [181-83]; Katharine Worth, Samuel Beckett’s Theatre: Life Journeys, reviewed by Nicholas Grene [184-86]; Richard Allen Cave, ed., Selected Plays of T.C. Murray, and Robert O’Driscoll, ed., Selected Plays of M. J. Molloy, reviewed by Christopher Murray [186-89]; Richard Pine, and Charles Acton, eds., To Talent Alone: The Royal Irish Academy of Music 1848-1998, reviewed by Harry White [189-91]; Colin Graham, Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry, reviewed by Peter Denman [192-94]; Terence Brown, The Life of W.B. Yeats, reviewed by Jefferson Holdridge [195-97]; Maighread Medbh, Tenant, Angela Patten, Still Listening, and Joan McBreen, ed., The White Page/An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets, reviewed by Catriona Clutterbuck [197-200]; Kevin Brophy, In the Company of Wolves, reviewed by Brian Donnelly [200-202].