Contents: Patrick Wakeling Looking at Beckett - The Man and the Writer [3] .J. CC Majes Young Beekett’s Irish Roots [18] .Roger Little Beekett’s Mentor. Rudmose-Brown: Sketch for a Portrait [34] .David Berman Beckelt and Berkeley [42] . TP Dolan Sanmel Beckett’s Dramatic Use of Hiberno-English h Seamus Deane Joyce and Beckett [57] .Ben Barnes Aspects of Directing Beekett [69] .Derek Mahon A Noise Like Wings: Beckett’s Poetry [88] .Aidan Higgins Foundering in Reality: Godot, Papa, Hamlet and Three Bashes at a Festschrift [93] .John Banville Out ofthe Abyss [102] .Christopher Murray Beckett Productions in Ireland: A Survey [103] .Reviews by Maurice Harmon, Michael Paul Gallagher, Joseph Dunne, Mary Moritaut, Christopher Murray, Declan Kiberd, Tom Garvin, Candyee A. Carlon, Carol Day. [126] .Short Notices [152] .Books Received [155]