ARTICLES: Andrew Hadfield, ‘William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat and the Question of Anglo-lrish Literature’ [237]; Richard B. McCready, ‘Irish Catholicism and Nationalism in Scotland: the Dundee Experience, 1850-1922’ [245]; Mary Shine Thompson, ‘Literary Life-chronology: An Alternative Form of Biography, The Case of Austin Clarke [253]; Louise Ryan, ‘Constructing “Irishwoman”: Modern Girls and Comely Maidens’ [263]; Jayne Steel, ‘Vampira: Representations of the Irish Female Terrorist’ [273]; Aoife Bhreatnach, ‘Travellers and the Print Media: Words and Irish Identity’ [285]; Timothy D. Taylor, ‘Living in a Postcolonial World: Class and Soul in The Commitments’ [291-302].

REVIEW ARTICLE: Jonathan Bardon, ‘The Irish Rebellion of 1798’, review of Ruan O’Donnell, The Rebellion in Wicklow, 1798 (1998); Paul Weber, On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg, 1796-1803 (IAP 1997); A. T. Q. Stewart, The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down (Four Courts 1995); Myrtle Hill, Brian Turner & Kenneth Dawson, eds., 1798: Rebellion in County Down (Blackstaff 1998); and Bill Wilsdon, The Sites of the 1798 Rising in Antrim and Down (Blackstaff 1997).

REVIEWS [307], Brian Griffin, The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800 1865 (IAP 19970, reviewed by Stanley H. Palmer; E. Margaret Crawford, ed., The Hungry Stream: Essays on Emigration and Famine (IIS/QUB 1997), and Margaret Kelleher, The Feminization of Famine (Cork UP 1997), reviewed by Christine Kinealy; David Fitzpatrick, The Two Irelands, 1912-1939 (OUP 1998), reviewed by Patrick Maume; Peter Hart, The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-23 (OUP 1998), reviewed by Patrick Maume; Henry Patterson, The Politics of Illusion: a Political History of the IRA (Peter Hart 1998), and Chris Gilligan & Jon Tonge, eds., Peace or War: Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Ashgate 2997), reviewed by John Shaw; Penny Bonsall, The Irish RMs: The Resident Magistrates in the British Administration of Ireland (Four Courts 1997), reviewed by Virginia Crossman; G. R. Sloan, The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century (Leicester UP 1997), reviewed by Derek Lynch; Basil McIvor, Hope Deferred: Experiences of an Irish Unionist (Blackstaff 1998), reviewed by Bob Purdie; Peter Shirlow & Mark McGovern, eds., Who Are ‘The People’? Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland (Pluto Press 1997), reviewed by William Hughes; R. B. McDowell, Crisis and Decline: the Fate of the Southern Unionists (Lilliput 1997), reviewed by Alvin Jackson; John Brewer, Bill Lockhart & Paula Rodgers, Crime in Ireland 1945-95: Here be Dragons (Clarendon 1997), reviewed by Nic Groombridge; W. N. Osborough, ed., Explorations in Law and History (IAP), reviewed by John McCafferty; Tracey Hill, ed., Decadence and Danger: Writing, History and the Fin de Siecle (1997), reviewed by Helen Day; Geraldine Mitchell, Deeds Not Words: The Life and Work of Muriel Gahan (TownHouse 1997), reviewed by Gifford Lewis; Brian Graham, ed., In Search of Ireland: A Cultural Geography (Routledge 1997), reviewed by Joseph Ruane; Glenda Norquay & Gerry Smyth, Space and Place: The Geographies of Literature (Liverpool 1997), reviewed by Aidan Arrowsmith; Rosemary Sales, Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland (Routledge 1997), reviewed by Mary J. Hickman; Anthony Bradley & Marianna Gialanella Valiulis, eds., Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (Massachussetts UP 1997), reviewed by Eibhear Walshe; Clare Barrington, Irish Women in England: An Annotated Bibliography (WERRC 1997), reviewed by Mary Kells; Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl (Clarendon 1997), and Willy Maley, Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (Macmillan 1997), reviewed by Simon Barker; David J. Baker, Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (Stanford UP 1997), 221pp.; reviewed by Willy Maley; Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly & Ian Campbell Ross, Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 (Four Courts 1998), reviewed by Patrick Reilly; Brian Hollingworth, Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writing Language, History, Politics (Macmillan 1997), reviewed by Colin Graham; Andrew Carpenter, Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork UP 1998), reviewed by Joseph McMinn; Maureen Keane, Mrs S. C. Hall: A Literary Biography (Colin Smythe 1997), reviewed by Glenn Hooper; Jonathan Allison, ed., Yeats’s Political Identities: Selected Essays (Michigan UP 1996), reviewed by Richard Greaves; Nicholas Meihuizen, Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space (Rodopi 1998), reviewed by Barbara A. Suess; Maria Di Battista & Lucy McDiarmid, eds., High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (OUP 1996), reviewed by Drew Milne; Kathleen Devine & Alan J. Peacock, ed., Louis MacNeice and his Influence (Colin Smythe 1998), reviewed by Liam Harte; Mary Bryden, ed., Samuel Beckett and Music (Clarendon 1998), reviewed by Paul Lawley; Umberto Eco & Liberato Santoro-Brienza, Talking of Joyce (UCD Press 1998), reviewed by Keith Williams; Kate O’Riordan, The Boy in the Moon (Flamingo 1997), and Evelyn Conlon, A Glassful of Letters (Blackstaff 1998), reviewed by Clare Wallace; Moya Cannon, The Parchment Boat (Gallery 1997), David Wheatley, Thirst (Gallery 1997), Medbh McGuckian, Selected Poems (Gallery 1997), and Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book (Gallery 1997), reviewed by Michael Thomas.