Contents: Christopher Murray Editorial vii John O'Meara Guardians of Truth 1 A.M. Gibbs "Giant Brain ...No Heart": Bernard Shaw’s Reception in Criticism and Biography [15] .Brian Cosgrove Male Sexuality and Female Rejection: Persistent Irony in Joyce’s lIThe Dead" [37] .Anne Clune Mythologising Sweeney [48] .Jonathan Hufstader Coming to Consciousness by Jumping in Graves: Heaney’s Bog Poems and the Politics of North [61] .Paul Keen "Making Strange/': Conversations with the Irish MI Other [75] .New Poetry Lucy Brennan Gifts [88] .Sweeney perse [88] .Tom Maclntyre Audit, Sixty [90] .Fred Johnston The Fall [91] .James W. Flannery Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of W.B. Yeats [92] .H. Gustav Klaus The Authorship of the Somhairle Macalastair Ballads [107] .Ake Persson Betraying the Age: Brendan Kennelly’s Mission [118] .Maria Cristina "Station Island": Seamus Heaney’s Divina Fumagalli Commedia [127] .Brian McIlroy When the Ulster Protestant and Unionist Looks: Spectatorship in (Northern) Irish Cinema [143] .Robert Hogan The Brave Timidity of. T.C. Murray [155] .Jose Lanters Violence and Sacrifice in Brian Friel’s The Gentle Island and Wonderful Tennessee [163] .Reviews by: Ulf Dantanus, Anthony Roche, Cormac 6 Grcida, Maurice Harmon, Rosemary Thomas, Peter Van de Kamp, John Fanagan, Charles Foran, T.P. Dolan, Nuala McDowell, Martin D. Bates [177] .List of Books Reviewed [198] .Books Received [199]