Table of Contents

What Foremothers?, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill; The Voices of Maria Edgeworth's Comedy, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain; Hyacinth and the Wise Man - Lady Gregory's Comic Enterprise, Mary Lowe-Evans; ""Homour with a Gender"" - Somerville and Ross and ""The Irish RM"", James M. Cahalan; The Crumbling Fortress - Molly Keane's Comedies of Anglo-Irish Manners, Rachael Jane Lynch; Iris Murdoch's Moral Comedy, Flora Alexander; (S)he Was Too Scrupulous Always - Edna O'Brien and the Comic Tradition, Michael Patrick Gillespie; History, Gender and the Postcolonial Condition - Julia O'Faolain's Comic Rewriting of ""Finnegan's Wake"", Theresa O'Connor; Lashings of the Mother Tongue - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Anarchic Laughter, Mary O'Connor.