ARTICLES: Desmond Taynor, Fictionalising Ireland [125] Michael Parker, Reckonings: The Political Contexts for Northern Irish Literature 1965-68 [133] Peter Boxall, Samuel Beckett: Towards a Political Reading [159] John Foster, Muir Houston and Chris Madigan, Distinguishing Catholics and Protestants among Irish Immigrants to Clydeside: A New Approach to Immigration and Ethnicity in Victorian Britain [171] Shane Murphy, A Code of Images': Northern Irish Centos [193]

REVIEWS/HISTORY AND POLTICS [205]: Feast and Famine: A History of Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920 by L. A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford; reviewed by L. M. Cullen Women and Paid Work in Ireland 1500-1930 edited by Bernadette Whelan, reviewed by Jayne Steel Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s. Essays in Honour of Donal Cregan edited by Miche:il 6 Siochn1, reviewed by R. C. Richardson Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49 by P:idraig Lenihan, reviewed by Patrick Little Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim by J. H. Ohlmeyer; reviewed by John Cronin Abject Loyalty. Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Victoria by James H. Murphy; reviewed by Mary E. Daly The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A Short History and Genealogical Guide by Jim Herlihy; The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A Complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men, 1836-1925 by Jim Herlihy, reviewed by Brian Griffin Ireland’s Independence, 1880-1923 by Oonagh Walsh, reviewed by James H. Murphy The Irish Women’s History Reader, ed. Alan Hayes and Diane Urquhart; reviewed by Ruth-Ann M. Harris William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin 1841-1921 by Thomas J. Morrissey, reviewed by John Newsinger -/ Politics, Archaeology and the Creation of a National Museum of Ireland: An Expression of National Life by Elizabeth Crooke; reviewed by Charles E. Orser Jr

REVIEWS/LITERATURE [220] A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000 by Christopher Morash; reviewed by Nicholas Grene The Irish Storyteller by Georges Denis Zimmermann; reviewed by James E. Doan A Bernard Shaw Chronology by A. M. Gibbs; reviewed by Nicholas Grene Bram Stoker, Dracula: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical Perspectives edited by John Paul Riquelme, reviewed by Lisa Hopkins ~ w: B. ¥eats. Critical Assessments, ed. David Pierce, reviewed by Barbara A. Suess Joyce and the Two Irelands by Willard Pons; reviewed by Patrick Parrinder Joyce Beyond Marx: History and Desire in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake by Patrick McGee, reviewed by Louis Armand Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past by Richard White, reviewed by Patrick O’Sullivan Francis Stuart Face to Face: A Critical Study by Anne McCartney, reviewed by Ellen-Raisa Jackson Irish Poetry since 1950: From Stillness into History by John Goodby, reviewed by Fran Brearton Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women’s Fiction by Christine St. Peter; reviewed by Siobhlin Holland Oughtobiography: Leaves from the Diary of a Hyphenated Jew by David Marcus, reviewed by Paul Delaney Reading Roddy Doyle by Caramine White, reviewed by Helen Day New Plays from the Abbey Theatre. Vol. Two 1996-1998, ed. Judy Friel and Sanford Stemlicht, reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture edited by Aaron Kelly and Alan A. Gillis, reviewed by Maureen O’Connor Glimpses by Brendan Kennelly, reviewed by Philip Gross Deconstructing Ireland: Identity, Theory, Culture by Colin Graham, reviewed by Clare Wallace.

REVIEWS/CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY [244]: Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation by Lance Pettitt; reviewed by Gerardine Meaney The Celtic Tiger: The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland by Kieran Allen, reviewed by John A. Jackson