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.

• 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.