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Readings in IrishCeathrúna Phádraigín HaidéadSeán Ó Tuama 1Myles na gCopaleen agus Drochshampla na nDealeabharLaois de Paor 24A New Short Story: FathersSeán MacMathúna 33Seán Ó Ríordáin: Joycery-Cookery-SorceryFrank Sewell 42Otherworld Harmonies and Heroic Utterance: The Fruits of the Literary Act Among UsGearóid Ó Crualaoich 62Professors and Performers and 'others of their kind': Contextualizing the Irish Bardic Poet.Michelle O'Riordan 73Literatures and CulturesModern-Day TroubadoursOlivier Burckhardt 89The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: Arnold and the Irish CulturePeter MacDonald 94Anthologising Ireland: Irish Literature (1904) and Its ContextsBruce Stewart 1051798 Re-ExaminedThe United Irishmen and the Wexford Rebellion: The Sources Re-ExaminedThomas Powell 127ReviewsRIANA O'DWYERMáire Ní Annracháin agus Bríona Nic Dhiarmuida (eds.): Téacs agus Chomhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge 141CAROL RUMENSTed Hughes: Birthday Letters 144KEVIN BARRYDerek Mahon: The Yellow Book, Journalism 149JIM MCLEAVEYWilly Maley: Savaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and IdentityAnne Fogerty (ed.): Irish University Review Special Issue: Spenser in Irelnd: 'The Faerie Queene' 151GUINN BATTENNeil Corcoran: After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish LiteratureBen Howard: The Pressed Melodeon: Essays on Modern Irish WritingSteven Matthews: Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation: The Evolving Debate 158DES O'RAWEMichael Coady: All SoulsBrendan Kennelly: The Man Made of RainCatherine Phil MacCarthy: The Blue GlobeDavid Wheatley: Thirst 169MÍIRE NÍ ANNRACHÍINPól Breathnach: Do Lorg: Dánta agus Aortha/Traces de Ton Passage: Poͨmes et Satires en Irlandais 173TOM GARVINPeter Hart: The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in CorkRichard English: Ernie O'Malley: IRA IntellectualMalachi O'Doherty: The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA 176CAITRIONA CLUTTERBUCKMedbh McGuckian: Selected Poems 179COLM BREATHNACHPádraig Ó Cíobháin: Ar Gach Maoilinn tá Síocháin 181BRIAN Ó CONCHUBHAIRMáirín Nic Eoin: B'ait Leo Bean: Gnéithe den Idé-eolaíocht Inscne I dTradisiún Liteartha na Gaeilge 185JAMES QUINNJames Kelly: Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth Century IrelandThomas Bartlett (ed.): Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone 187CATRIONA O'REILLYSeán O'Brien: The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 191Notes on Contributors 194