ARTICLES: John Robb, ‘Hegemonic Megaliths: Changing the Irish Prehistoric’ [5]; Andrew Hadfield, ‘Rethinking Early-Modern Colonialism: The Anomalous State of Ireland’ [13]; Patrick Maume, ‘James Mullin, “the Poor Scholar”: A Self-made Man from Carleton’s Country’ [29]; Pamela J. Kincheloe, ‘Two Visions of Fairyland: Ireland and the Monumental Discourse of the Nineteenth-century American Tourist’ [41]; Spurgeon Thompson, ‘The Commodification of Culture and Decolonisation in Northern Ireland’ [53]; John Goodby, ‘Bhabha, the Post/Colonial and Glenn Patterson’s Burning Your Own’ [65].

INTERVIEW: “All Stories Are Love Stories”: Robert McLiam Wilson interviewed Richard Mills [73].

REVIEW ARTICLES: Paddy McNally, ‘Protestant Perspectives - Presbyterians, Patriots and Unionists’ [79], review of From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 by Jacqueline Hill; The Politics of Irish Dissent, 1650-1840 ed. Kevin Herlihy; The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology by Ian McBride. John Kenny, ‘Elephants are Contagious’ [83], review of , Fintan O’Toole’s Ireland: The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities by Fintan O’Toole.

REVIEWS, The Oxford Companion to Irish History ed. S. J. Connolly, reviewed by G. R. Searle; Colonialism, Religion and Nationalism in Ireland by Liam Kennedy, reviewed by D. George Boyce; Rebellion in Wicklow: General Joseph Holt’s Personal Account of 1798 ed. Peter O’Shaughnessy, reviewed by Daniel J. Gahan; Rebellion in Kildare, 1790 1803 by Liam Chambers; and The Women of 1798 ed. Daire Keogh & Nicholas Furlong, reviewed by Daniel J. Gahan; Land, Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question by Philip Bull, reviewed by Michael Winstanley; James Connolly: Selected Writings ed. Peter Beresford Ellis; Connolly, The Lost Writings, ed. Aindrias O Cathasaigh, and Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy, 1917 to 1923 by Conor Kostick, reviewed by John Newsinger; The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA by Malachi O’Doherty, reviewed by Greg Garrard; Jews in Twentieth-century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by Dermot Keogh, reviewed by Kieran Allen; Mary Robinson: An Independent Voice by John Horgan, reviewed by Catherine B. Shannon; Print and Popular Culture in Ireland by Niall O Ciosain, reviewed by Maura Cronin; Power in the Eye: An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Film by Terry Byrne; Media in Ireland: The Search for Diversity edited by Damien Kiberd, and Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland by Brian McIlroy, reviewed by Lance Pettitt; The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement ed. Angus Mitchell, reviewed by Sean Hutton; Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality by Susan Shaw Sailer, reviewed by Margarita Cappock; Devils and Angels: Television, Ideology and the Coverage of Poverty by Eoin Devereux, reviewed by Kevin J. Donnelly; The Health of the Irish in Britain: The Report of a Community Conference by Seeromanie Harding & Gearoid Ó Meachair; Elderly Irish People in Britain: A Profile by Mary Tilki, and Report of the London Irish Pensioners Day by the Hammersmith Irish Centre, reviewed by Bronwen Walter; Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry by Colin Graham, reviewed by Michael McAteer; The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality and Late-Victorian Society by Michael S. Foldy, and Oscar Wilde: Trial and Punishment 1895-97 by the Public Record Office, London, reviewed by Neil Sammells; Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn and Japan: Writer, Journalist and Teacher ed. Sean G. Ronan, reviewed by R. K. R. Thornton; James Joyce and Trieste by Peter Hartshorn, reviewed by Liberato Santoro-Brienza; James Joyce and Censorship: The Trials of “Ulysses” by Paul Vanderham, reviewed by Richard Brown; Joyce’s Abandoned Female Costumes, Gratefully Received by Elisabeth Sheffield, reviewed by Clare Wallace; Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien ed. Anne Clune & Tess Hurson, reviewed by Donald Morse; Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God by Mary Bryden, and Beckett before Godot by John Pilling, reviewed by Charles Lyons; Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J. G. Farrell by Ralph J. Crane & Jennifer Livett, reviewed by Antonio Ballesteros-Gonzalez; Irish Love Poems ed. A. Norman Jeffares, reviewed by Kevin Kiely; Francis Ledwidge: The Poems Complete ed. Liam O’Meara, reviewed by Michael W. Thomas; After The Ball by Breda Sullivan, and Nominies by Ian Duhig, reviewed by N. H. Reeve; Famine by Desmond Egan, and Entering the Mare by Katie Donovan, reviewed by William A. Wilson; The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1885-1925 by Nicola Gordon Bowe & Elizabeth Cumming, reviewed by Gifford Lewis; Irish Public Sculpture - A History by Judith Hill, reviewed by David C. Rose; The Keeper’s Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770 1970 by Harry White, reviewed by Timothy D. Taylor; In Honor of St. Patrick: Chant for His Feast by Schola Cantorum of St. Peter’s in the Loop, reviewed by Keith Bennett; Last Night’s Fun: A Book about Music, Food and Time by Ciaran Carson, reviewed by Gerry Smyth; Celtic Fury by Sean Kenny, reviewed by Carolina Fernandez-Rodriguez.