Contents: Obituary Barbara Hayley [183] . Francis Doherty Watt in an Irish Frame [187] .Gerardine Meaney Long Day’s Journey into Night: Modernism, Post-Modernism and Maternal Loss [204] .Mark Lane Theatrical Space and National Place in Four Plays by Thornas Murphy [219] .lacqueline Genet Yeats’s Purgatory: A Re-Assessrnent [229] .Lis Pihl Literary Links: Five Letters from Lady Gregory to Frands Hackett and Signe Toksvig [245] .H. Custav Klaus "The sore frailty of this lasting cause": Some Celtic Versions of Spanish Civil War Poetry [268] .Bernard O'Donoghue Croke Park or Ballylee, 1989 [285] .Fred johnston At The Circus [287] .Letter from America [287] .Mark Hutcheson The Dream [289] .Padraig Rooney The Duration of Burning [290] .The Names [291] .lames Liddy Vir [293] .Sergeant Valentine Function, at Hollyfort [293] .Helena Sheehan Writing and the Zeitgeist: Reflections on the Dublin Festival of Literature, 1991 [295] .IASAIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1990 [307] .Reviews by: Breandan 0 Madagjin, Christopher Murray, Peter Denman, James McCabe, Michael Lloyd, Desmond Egan, Christina Hunt Mahony, June K. Davison, I.M. Bell, Peter B. Callagher, Cormac 0 GrAda, Eunan O'Flalpin [367] .List of books reviewed: [398] .Books Received [399]