Contents: Acknowledgments [177] .Contributors [180] .Muiris Mac Conghail Poet of the Bright Thread: The Poetry of Mairtiii 6 Direain [181] .Patrick Sheeran Genius Fabulae: The Irish Sense of Place [191] .Ellen Shannon-Mangan New Letters from James Clarence Mangan to John O'Donovan [207] .Mary A. O'Toole The Theory of Serialism in The ThirdPoliceman [215] ..GeraldDawe Memo to J. J. [226] .Robert Welch Speechifying and the Breaking of It [228] .Mary E. 0' Donnell Filial [229] .Ascent [230] .The Last Link [231] .Henry Hart Ghostly Colloquies: Seamus Heaney’s [233] . Station Island Heinz Kosok Anthologies of Anglo-lrish Literature: 1772-1986: A Checklist [251] .F. x. Martin OSA In Memoriam John Jordan [263] .IASAIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1987 [276] .Reviews by: Christopher Murray, John Fanagan, Joris Duytschaever, Niall McMonagle, Mary Banotti MEP, Fergus D' Arcy, Maurice Harmon. [337] . Books Received: [354]