Something to Hate: Intimate Enmities in Irish History ROY FOSTER 1
Freedom Betrayed: Acton, Burke and Ireland SEAMUS DEANE 13
Exclusion and Inclusion in Swift's Gulliver's Travels KEVIN BARRY 36
Irish Poetry and 'Internationalism': Variations on a Critical Theme EDNA LONGLEY 48
'My Pen is just a Weapon': Politics, History and the Fiction of Peadar O'Donnell DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL 62
Agency, Flows and Post-Colonial Structure in Ireland MICHEL PEILLON 71
Review Articles
The Field Day Anthology and Irish Women's Literary Studies MARGARET KELLEHER 82
Ireland, Irish and Colonialism TOM DUNNE 95
Tim Robinson's Variegated World JOHN WILSON FOSTER 105
Poetry
Lessons from the Previous Year SINÉAD MORRISSEY114
The Tango Kids Fuse in East Cork PAUL DURCAN 115
Three Poems MICHAEL LONGLEY 123
Migrant Tongue: Battos in Australia OLIVIER BURCKHARDT 125
Reviews
GEORGE O'BRIEN
Eͼdiger Imhof: The Modern Irish Novel: Irish Novelists Since 1945; Derek Hand: John Banville: Exploring Fictions; Ingo Berensmeyer: John Banville: Fictions of Order; Caramine White: Reading Roddy Doyle134
MICHEL FLOT
Bernard Adams: Denis Johnston: A Life 140
BERNARD ESCARBELT
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford: Ireland's Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture 142
AARON KELLY
Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth (eds.): Across the Margins: Cultural Identity and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago
Ray Ryan: Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation 1966–2000 145
LEONTIA FLYNN
Peter McDonald: Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill 148
ALAN A. GILLIS
Paul Durcan: Cries of an Irish Caveman Medbh McGuckian: The Face of the Earth Paul Muldoon: Moy Sand and Gravel 151
PHILIP COLEMAN
Tom French: Touching the Bones Dermot Healy: The Reed Bed Dennis O'Driscoll: Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams: Selected Prose Writings Matthew Sweeney: Selected Poems158
DANIEL WILLIAMS
R.F. Foster: The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland 162
FINTAN CULLEN
Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin: Ireland's Painters 1600–1940 Nicola Figgis and Brendan Rooney: Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, vol. I168
GUY BEINER
Georges Denis Zimmerman: Songs of Irish Rebellion: Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs 1780–1900 Georges Denis Zimmerman: The Irish Storyteller171
EMMET O'CONNOR
Catherine Hirst: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Belfast: The Pound and the Sandy Row Marilyn Silverman: An Irish Working Class: Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony, 1800–1950 Jane Helleiner: Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture175
DIARMAID FERRITER
Finola Kennedy: From Cottage to Crͨche: Camily Change in Ireland Linda Connolly: The Irish Women's Movement from Revolution to Devolution 179
RAYMOND GILLESPIE
James Scott Wheeler: The Irish and British Wars, 1637–1654: Triumph, Tragedy and Failure Allan I. Macinnes and Jane Ohlmeyer: The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century 183
Notes on Contributors 186