News of Authors: Nuacht faoi Udair

Our theater-minded readers will recognize the names of two past contributors to this journal in a collection of critical essays recently issued by Carysfort Press of Dublin. The volume is edited by Helen Lojek of Boise State University—who wrote here on the Charabanc group in the Autumn, 1998, issue—and is titled The Theatre of Frank McGuinness: Stages of Mutability (ISBN 1-904505-01-5). Among the essays included is Joan FitzPatrick Dean's "Self-Dramatization in the Plays of Frank McGuinness," which first appeared in the Spring, 1999, issue of New Hibernia Review.

The Autumn, 2000, issue of this journal presented Nicholas Allen's study of the intellectual interplay between cultural nationalist George Russell and the socialist labor leader James Connolly, particularly in the pages of Russell's Irish Homestead. A version of this article appears in Dr. Allen's new book from Four Courts Press, George Russell (Æ) and the New Ireland, 1905-30 (ISBN 1-85182-691-2). The volume was launched at Hibernian United Service Club on St. Stephen's Green in January of this year.

Daniel O'Connell, the British Press, and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks (ISBN: 0-7546-0553-1), by the late Leslie A. Williams, has just been released by Ashgate Press in the United Kingdom. Early readers of New Hibernia Review will recall Dr. Williams's illustrated article, "'Rint' and 'Repale': Punch and the Image of Daniel O'Connell, 1842-1847," a version of which is included in this extensive study of often unconscious stereotyping of the Irish and enmity against them in the Victorian press.