Contents: Peter Denman Introduction [1] . Frank McCuinness A Voice from the Trees: Thomas Kilroy"s Version of Chekhov’s The Seagull [3] .Michael Cronin Babel’s Suburbs: Irish Verse Translation in the 1980s [15] .Biddy lenkinson A Letter to an Editor [27] .Mdire Ni Annrachdin The Highland Connection: Scottish Reverberations in Irish Literary Identity [35] .Gerald Dawe Three Poems [48] .Corinna del Greco Lobner A Tilly of Irony in Joyce’s "Divine Comedy": The X in "Grace" [50] .Cecelia Scallan Zeiss Myth and Metamorphosis: Landscape as Archetype in Quest Narratives by Samuel Beckett and Wilma Stockenstrbm [56] .Sedn Lysaght Banville’s Tetralogy: The Limits of Mimesis [82] .Paddy Bushe Poem [101] .Eamon Grennan Three Poems [103] .Bill Tinley International Perspectives in the Poetry of Derek Mahon [106] .William Hodder Ferguson’s "The Fairy Thorn": A Critique John Pikoulis Louis MacNeice in the Thirties: The Minute After the Minute After the Minute After [130] .Christopher Murray "Cover Story": An Afterword [147] .Reviews by: Anthony Roche, Robert Welch, Peter Denman, John Red mend, Leo McNamara, Ulf Dantanus, Rachel Hands, Eamon O'Flaherty, Peter van de Kamp, Leo Carruthers, Harry White, John O'Grady, Peter J. Lucas [150] .List of Books Reviewed [179] .Books Received [180]