ARTICLES: Mark Maguire, ‘The Space of the Nation: History, Culture and a Conflict in Modern Ireland’ [109]; John Brannigan, ‘“A Particular Vice of that People”: Giraldus Cambrensis and the Discourse of English Colonialism’ [121]; Andrew Smith, ‘Bram Stoker’s The Mystery of the Sea: Ireland and the Spanish-Cuban-American War’ [131]; Conor Carville, ‘Becoming Minor: Daniel Corkery and the Expatriated Nation’ [139]; Michael W. Thomas, ‘William Trevor’s Other Ireland: The Writer and his Irish in his England’ [149]; Clare Wallace, ‘Running Amuck: Manic Logic in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy’ [157]; Sean Campbell, ‘Race of Angels: The Critical Reception of Second-generation Irish Musicians’ [165].

REVIEW ARTICLE: Donald Graham, ‘Northern Ireland, Employment and the Law [175-80], review of Eithne McLaughlin [ser. ed.,] Employment Equality in Northern Ireland: Report of the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights [beng] Fair Employment Law in Northern Ireland: Debates and Issues , ed. Denise Magill & Sarah Rose [Vol. I], and Policy Aspects of Employment Equality in Northern Ireland [Vol. II], ed. Eithne McLaughlin & Padraic Quirk, and Public Views and Experiences of Fair Employment and Equality Issues in Northern Ireland [Vol. III] edited by John McVey & Nigel Hutson.

REVIEWS: The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church by Kathleen Hughes & Ann Hamlin; and In Search of Columba by Lesley Whiteside, reviewed by Brendan O’Malley; A History of the Irish Working Class by Peter Beresford Ellis, reviewed by Brian Martin; The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland by John McGurk and Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland ed. Andrew Hadfield & Willy Maley, reviewed by Ciaran Brady; Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 by Murray Pittock, reviewed by Willy Maley; Linen, Family and Community in Tullylish, County Down, 1690-1914 by Marilyn Cohen, reviewed by Brenda Collins; Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century by Joep Leerssen, reviewed by Gerry Smyth; The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism by Emmet Larkin, reviewed by Mary W. Harris; The Kingdom of the Ryans: The Irish in Southwest New South Wales, 1816-1890 by Malcolm Campbell, reviewed by Patrick OFarrell; This Dreadful Visitation: The Famine in Lurgan/Portadown by Gerard Mac Atasney, reviewed by Gerard Moran; A Death-dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland by Christine Kinealy, reviewed by Peter Gray; Culture, Confiict and Migration: The Irish in Victorian Cumbria by Donald MacRaild, reviewed by Graham Davis; Guns and Chiffon: Women Revolutionaries and Kilmainham Gaol by Sinead McCoole, reviewed by Sally Trueman-Dicken; Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: A Life by Margaret Ward, reviewed by Louise Ryan; They Shall Grow Not Old: Irish Soldiers and the Great War by Myles Dungan, reviewed by Joanna Bourke; Rural Ireland, Real Ireland? ed. Jacqueline Genet, reviewed by Michael McAteer; Irish Playwrights, 1880 1995: A Resource and Production Sourcebook ed. Bernice Schrank & William W. Demastes, reviewed by John P. Harrington; Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War by Philip Hoare, reviewed by Clive Bloom; Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class and Irishness by Marjorie Howes; and Yeats and Women edited by Deirdre Toomey, reviewed by Selina Guinness; James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and The Few in Modernist Europe by Neil R. Davison, reviewed by Morris Beja; Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing ed. Eibhear Walshe, reviewed by Vincent Quinn; Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader ed. Anne Byrne & Madeleine Leonard, reviewed by Bronwen Walter; Discrimination and the Irish Community in Britain ed. Mary Hickman & Bronwen Walter, reviewed by John A. Jackson; Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena ed. Hastings Donnan & Graham McFarlane, reviewed by Richard Kirkland; Was Ireland Conquered? International Law and the Irish Question by Anthony Carty, reviewed by W. N. Osborough; Sacrifice of Fools by Ian McDonald, reviewed by John Newsinger; Enchanted Journeys: Fifty Years of Irish Writing for Children ed. Robert Dunbar, reviewed by Jean Webb; Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty, reviewed by Michael Parker; The Bridal Suite by Matthew Sweeney, and Verbum et Verbum by Micheal Fanning, reviewed by Justin Quinn; Mutabilitie by Frank McGuinness, reviewed by Andrew Hadfield; The Boxer directed by Jim Sheridan, and The Butcher Boy directed by Neil Jordan, reviewed by Terry Byrne.