Contents: Tara Brabazon & Paul Stock, ‘“We Love You Ireland”: Riverdance and Stepping through Antipodean Memory’ [301]; Fergal Gaynor, “An Irish Potatoe Seasoned with Attic Salt”: The Reliques of Fr. Prout and Identity before The Nation’ [313]; Gerard Moran, ‘The National Brotherhood of St Patrick in Britain in the 1860s’ [325]; Máire níi Fhlathuin, ‘The Irish Oscar Wilde: Appropriations of the Artist’ [337]; Jerry C. M. Nolan, ‘Standish James O’Grady’s Cultural Nationalism’ [347]; Gavin Murphy, ‘“Keaning the North”: The Paintings of John Keane and Political Conflict in Northern Ireland’ [359].

REVIEWS: Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age ed. Howard B. Clarke, Maire níi Mhaonaigh & Raghnall Ó Floinn, reviewed by Terry Barry; The Making of Ireland, From Ancient Times to the Present by James Lydon, reviewed by Mary C. Kelly; Pathways to Ulster’s Past: Sources and Resources for Local Studies by Peter Collins, reviewed by Jonathan Bell; If The Irish Ran The World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 by Donal Harman Akenson, reviewed by John McGurk; Propagating the Word of Irish Dissent 1650-1800 ed. K. Herlihy, reviewed by Toby Barnard; Ireland Since 1690: A Concise History by Roy Douglas, Liam Harte & Jim O’Hara, reviewed by Neal Garnham; Ireland: Towards New Identities? ed. Karl-Heinz Westarp & Michael Boss, reviewed by Matthew Gibson; The Bellews of Mount Bellew: A Catholic Gentry Family in Eighteenth-Century Ireland by Karen J. Harvey, reviewed by Daniel J. Gahan; Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland by James Kelly, reviewed by Paddy McNally; Counties of South Ulster 1834-38: Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland ( Vol. 40), ed. Angelique Day & Patrick McWilliams, reviewed by Russell Murray; Famine Diary by Brendan Ó Cathaoir, and Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843-50 by Peter Gray, reviewed by Christine Kinealy; The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New by Thomas Keneally, reviewed by Frank Molloy; Some Ethical Questions of Peace and War by Walter McDonald (ed. Tom Garvin), and The Victory of Sinn Fein by P. S. O’Hegarty (ed. Tom Garvin); reviewed by Peter Hart; Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition by Thomas Hennessey, reviewed by David Fitzpatrick; Location and Dislocation in Contemporary IrIsh Society: Emigration and Irish Identities ed. Jim MacLaughlin, reviewed by David Storey; John Hume and the SDLP: Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland by Gerard Murray, reviewed by Bob Purdie; Battling for Peace by Richard Needham, reviewed by John Shaw; Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions by Nina Witoszek & Pat Sheeran, reviewed by Charles E. Orser Jr.; Robert Shipboy MacAdam: His Life and Gaelic Proverb Collection by A. J. Hughes, reviewed by Robbie Hannan; Irish Popular Culture, 1650-1850 ed. James S. Donnelly Jr. & Kerby A. Miller, reviewed by Nancy J. Curtin; The Present Lasts a Long Time: Essays in Cultural Politics by Francis Mulhern, reviewed by Claire Connolly; Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity ed. Mary J. Kelly & Barbara O’Connor, reviewed by Jayne Steel; Ireland and Cultural Theory: The Mechanics of Authenticity ed. Colin Graham & Richard Kirkland, reviewed by Bart Moore-Gilbert; The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual by Alexei Kondratiev, reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin; Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy, reviewed by Jose Lanters; Margaret Aylward 1810-1889: Lady of Charity, Sister of Faith, by Jacinta Prunty, reviewed by Sarah Ferris; Poets and Politics: Reaction and Continuity in Irish Poetry, 1558-1625 by Marc Caball, reviewed by Andrew Hadfield; The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House by Vera Kreilkamp, reviewed by Tessa Hadley; Irish Encounters: Poetry, Politics and Prose since 1880 edited by Alan Marshall & Neil Sammells, reviewed by Shaun Richards; Red-Headed Rebel: Susan L. Mitchell, Poet and Mystic of the Irish Cultural Renaissance by Hilary Pyle, reviewed by Margaret Ward; The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity and Representation by Tracy Mishkin, reviewed by Tim Taylor; Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce by Garry Leonard, reviewed by Morris Beja; Joyce, Joyceans and the Rhetoric of Citation by Eloise Knowlton, reviewed by Willy Maley; Theatre of Shadows: Samuel Beckett’s Drama, 1956-1976 by Rosemary Pountney, reviewed by Mary Bryden; The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities by Robert Tracy, reviewed by Matthew Campbell; Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland by Peter McDonald, reviewed by Stan Smith; Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary, reviewed by James E. Doan; Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition by Christina Hunt Mahony, reviewed by Stephen Regan; Selected Plays of Micheál mac Liammoir, ed. by John Barrett, reviewed by John Harrington; Selected Plays: T. C. Murray by Richard Allen Cave, and Selected Plays: M. J. Molloy by Robert O’Driscoll, reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony; Sacrilege by Brendan Cleary, and Snakeskin Stilettos by Moyra Donaldson, reviewed by Justin Quinn; The Things that Were by Aubrey Dillon-Malone, reviewed by Helen Day; Getting Used to Not Being Remarkable by Michael Foley, reviewed by Antonio Ballesteros-Gonzalez; Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists, ed. Jennifer Grinnell & Alston Conley, reviewed by Catherine Harper; Contemporary Irish Cinema / Cineaste Supplement, Vol. XXIV, Nos. 2-3, reviewed by Brian Neve.