ARTICLES: Jennifer Fitzgerald, ‘Jazzing the Middle Ages’: The Feminist Genesis of Helen Waddell’s The Wandering Scholars [5]; Virginia Crossman, The Resident Magistrate as Colonial Officer: Addison, Somerville and Ross [23]; Aidan Arrowsmith, Plastic Paddy: Negotiating Identity in Second-generation ‘Irish-English’ Writing [35]; D. MacGiolla Chriost, The Irish Language and Current Policy in Northern Ireland [45]; Hilary Robinson, Disruptive Women Artists: An Irigarayan Reading of Irish Visual Culture [57]; Stacia Bensyl, Swings and Roundabouts: An Interview with Emma Donoghue [73] Review Articles: PeterAspinall, The Health of Irish Migrant Men in Britain, review of ‘Differences in Mortality of Migrants’ by Seeromanie Harding & Roy Maxwell, in F. Drever & M. Whitehead, eds., Health Inequalities: Decennial Supplement; Brendan Halpin, Who are the Irish in Britain? Evidence from Large-scale Surveys, Iestyn Williams & Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, Accommodation and Social Care Needs of Older Irish Men in Birmingham [83-90]; Donald E. Morse, ‘The Simple Magnificence of Bacteria’ review of Chris Lee’s The Electrocution of Children [91-99]

REVIEWS, Steven G. Ellis, Ireland in the Age of the Tudors 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule reviewed by John McGurk; Tom Reilly, Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy: The Untold Story of the Cromwellian Invasion, reviewed by Toby Barnard; Gerard Moran, Radical Irish Priests 1660-1970, and Colmcille O’Conbhuidhe OCSO, , ed. Finbarr Donovan, Studies in Irish Cistercian History, reviewed by Dominic Aidan Bellenger; Thomas McLoughlin, Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the Eighteenth Century, reviewed by Robert Mahony; Erin Bishop, The World of Mary O’Connell 1778-1836, reviewed by Maura Cronin; Arthur O’Connor, The State of Ireland, ed. James Livesey [rep.], reviewed by Michael de Nie; Roger Swift & Sheridan Gilley, eds., The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension, reviewed by Donald M. Macraild; Oliver P. Rafferty, The Church, the State and the Fenian Threat 1861-75, reviewed by Brian Griffin; Joachim Fischer & John Dillon, eds., The Correspondence of Myles Dillon, 1922-1925: Irish-German Relations and Celtic Studies, reviewed by Patrick O’Neill; Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions, reviewed by William Hughes; John Horgan, Sean Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot, reviewed by Enda Staunton; William Crotty & David E. Schmitt, Ireland and the Politics of Change, reviewed by Charles Townsend; W. N. Osborough, Studies in Irish Legal History, by Neal Garnham; Eanna Hickey, Irish Law and Lawyers in Modern Folk Tradition, reviewed by Jose Lanters; K. M. Davies, Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 9: Bray, reviewed by Mervyn Busteed; Pat O’Connor, Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society, reviewed by Bronwen Walter; Chrystel Hug, The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland, 1922-95, reviewed by Vincent Quinn; William J. McCormack, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Irish Culture, reviewed by Conor Carville Fintan Vallely, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, and Marie McCarthy, Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture, reviewed by Sean Campbell; Terry Eagleton, The Truth about the Irish, reviewed by Patrick Parrinder; Mairín Nic Eoin, B‘ait Leo Bean: Gneithe den Ide-eolaiocht Insne i dTraidisiun Liteartha na Gaeilge, reviewed by Sean Hutton; Bruce Arnold, Swift: An Illustrated Life, reviewed by Patrick Reilly; Janis & Richard Londraville, eds., Too Long a Sacrifice: The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn, reviewed by Eugene O’Brien; Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual No. 13, reviewed by Youngmin Kim; Thomas J. Cousineau, After the Final No: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy, reviewed by Paul Lawley; Lavinia Greacen, J. G. Farrell: The Making of a Writer; reviewed by Simon Caterson; Jacqueline Hurtley, Rosa Gonzalez, Ines Praga & Esther Aliaga, Ireland in Writing: Interviews with Writers and Academics, reviewed by Naoko Toraiwa; Daren Tofts & Murray McKeich, Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture, reviewed by Lawrence James; Neil Corcoran, Poets of Modern Ireland, reviewed by Roberta Gefter Wondrich; Daniel Tobin, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, reviewed by William A. Wilson; Clair Wills, Reading Paul Muldoon, and Paul Muldoon, Hay, reviewed by John Goodby; Privacy by Justin Quinn, reviewed by Fran Brearton; John P. Harrington & Elizabeth J. Mitchell, Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland, reviewed by Mairead Nic Craith; Richard Pine, The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel, reviewed by Robert Gordon; Oliver Parker, dir., [Oscar Wilde,] An Ideal Husband, reviewed by Stephen Regan.