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Contents: Maureen O'Connor: Introduction - Robert J.C. Young: Walking Westward - Penny Boumelha: The Leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's Emigrants - David Lloyd: Nomadic Figures: The 'Rhetorical Excess' of Irishness in Political Economy - Luke Gibbons: Roots of Modernity: Primitivism and Primitive Accumulation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Gordon Bigelow: Economy and Ascendancy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Ciara Boylan/Tom Boylan: The Art and Science of Political Economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s - Joep Leerssen: Some Notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) - Michael Foley: From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bourchier - Niamh O'Sullivan: Reading between the Lines - Helen O'Shea: The World, the Music, and the Critic: Some Thoughts on Said's Musical Transgressions - Maud Ellmann: Noses and Monotheism - James H. Murphy: 'Disgusted by the Details': Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Dublin Castle Scandals of 1884 - Asier Altuna-García de Salazar: The Stage-Irishman Represented through Spain: The Castle of Andalusia (1782) by John O'Keeffe (1744-1833) - Robert Tracy: Waking the Dead: Brian Friel's Post Mortems - James P. Walsh: Tadhg, Let's Change the Subject - Rebecca Pelan: Hardy Women and Titanic Struggles - Tom Moylan: Irish Voyages and Visions: Pre-figuring, Re-configuring Utopia - Terry Eagleton: Revolution and Remembrance - Tom Duddy: One Summer - Michael D. Higgins: Of Possibility - Rita Ann Higgins: I'll Have to Stop Thinking about Sex - Bernard O'Donoghue: Mere Planter and Fíor-Ghael - Louis de Paor: An Nuacht (Athchraoladh) - Louis de Paor: News Headlines (Repeat Broadcast) - Maureen O'Connor: Biographical Note - Anuradha Dingwaney Needham/Lawrence Needham: For Tadhg - Gabriela M. Steinke: Des Temps Perdus.

The Editor: Maureen O'Connor lectures in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She is co-editor, with Lisa Colletta, of Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (2006); with Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney, of Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives (2006); and, with Tadhg Foley, of Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture, and Empire (2006). Her book The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women's Writing is forthcoming from Peter Lang.