ARTICLE: Charles Orser, Why is there n. Archaeology in Irish Studies? [157] Janette Condon, The Patriotic Children’s Treat: Irish Nationalism and Children’s Culture at the Twilight of Empire [167] Michael McAteer, A Split Unity: Gender and ?istory in A.E.’s Poetry [179] Andrew Thacker, Toppling Masonry and Textual Space: Nelson’s Pillar and Spatial Politics in Ulysses [195] GillianMclntosh, 'Life is a series ofoppositions': The Prose WorkofW. R. Rodgers [205] Graham Spencer, Negotiating Peace: Politics, Television News and the Northern Ireland Peace Process [217]

REVIEW ARTICLE [233]: Liam Harte, Free State Interrogators: Liam O’Flaherty and Frank O’Connor, review of The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty and My Father’s Son by Frank O’Connor.

REVIEWS A History of Settlement in Ireland, ed. Terry Barry, reviewed by John Robb History of the Diocese of Derry from Earliest Times, ed. H. A. Jefferies & C. Devlin; and History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin, ed. J. Kelly & D. Keogh, reviewed by Dom Aidan Bellenger The Irish Act of Union: A Study in High Politics 1798-1801 by PatrickM. Geoghegan; reviewed by Norman Vance The Meaning of the Famine. TheIrish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity. Vol. 6, ed. Patrick O’Sullivan; and Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish by Frank Neal; reviewed by Peter Gray In Their Own Words: The Famine in North Connacht, 1845-1849 by Liam Swords; teviewed by Gerard Moran Civil War in Ulster by Joseph Johnston;, ed. Roy Johnston, reviewed by D. George Boyce The Irish Constabularies 1822-1922: A Century of Policing in Ireland by Donal J. O’Sullivan, reviewed by Clive Emsley Irish America by Reginald Byron, reviewed by Patrick O’Farrell Breaking Enmities: Religion, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1967-97 by Patrick Grant; and The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture, ed. Malcolm Anderson & Eberhard Bort; reviewed by Richard Kirkland Ireland After History by David Lloyd; reviewed by Shaun Richards Luxury andAusterity, ed. Jacqueline Hill & Colm Lennon, reviewed by Janet Nolan The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Twentieth-century Ireland by Gillian Mclntosh; reviewed by Patrick Maume 'A Dream of Liberty': Constance Markievicz’s Vision of Ireland, 1908-1927 by Sari Oikarinen, reviewed by Sally Trueman-Dicken The Rights of Nations: Nations and Nationalism in a Changing World, ed. Desmond M. Clarke & Charles Jones, reviewed by Willy Maley Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures , ed. Grant Jarvie, reviewed by Neal Garnham Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity since 1884 by Mike Cronin, reviewed by Brian Griffin Media in Ireland: The Search for Ethical Journalism, ed. Damien Kiberd; reviewed by Jayne Steel Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man of Dancing at Lughnasa by James MacKillop, reviewed by Lance Pettitt Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940, ed. Greta Jones & Elizabeth Malcolm, reviewed by Ann Dally Theology and Modern Irish Art by Gesa E. Thiessen, reviewed by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts, ed. Bruce Stewart; reviewed by Jl:irgen Kamm Charles Dickens’s Ireland: An Anthology, Including an Account of his Visits to Ireland by Jim Cooke, reviewed by Melissa Fegan Bram Stoker’s Dracula Unearthed, ed. Clive Leatherdale; and Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow: A Critical Anthology, ed. Elizabeth Miller, reviewed by Lisa Hopkins Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humamst by Bruce Bashford; and Oscar Wilde ’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age by Mary Warner Blanchard, reviewed by Maureen O’Connor James Joyce by Edna O’Brien; Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce, ed. Sebastian D. G. Knowles; Joyce ’s Music and Noise: Theme and Variation in His Writings by Jack Weaver; and A uthorship, Ethics and the Reader by Dominic Rainsford; reviewed by Richard Brown Reading Dem.da Reading Joyce by Alan Roughley, reviewed by Lawrence James No-thing is Left to Tell: ZenlChaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett by John Leeland Kundert-Gibbs; and Beckett and Beyond, ed. Bruce Stewart, reviewed by Paul Lawley Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland by Laura Pelaschiar, reviewed by Kim Wallace The White Page (An Bhileog Bhdn): Twentieth-century Irish Women Poets, ed. / Joan McBreen, reviewed by Julie Smith Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry, ed. Noel Duffy & Theo Dorgan, reviewed by Michael W. Thomas The Poetry Quartets: 4 by Paul Durcan, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley & Medbh McGuckian, reviewed by Sarah Fulford Begin by Brendan Kennelly, reviewed by Ake Persson

REVIEWS/LITERATURE: Literature Interpretation Theory, Special Issue 'Ireland: The Presence of the Past' Parts I & II, ed. Lee A. Jacobus & Regina Barreca, Guest Editor Barbara A. Suess, reviewed by Clare Wallace The Story of Irish Dance by Helen Brennan, reviewed by Tara Brabazon