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COVER FRONT: James Malton, “Rotunda and New Rooms, Dublin,” 1791, aquatint. BACK: James Malton, “Lying in Hospital, Dublin,” 1791, aquatint. The images that appear on the front and back covers of this issue are reproduced from James Malton’s A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin in a Series of the Most Interesting Scenes Taken in the Year 1791 by James Malton, with a Brief Authentic History from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time (London, n.d.) For further information about these eighteenth-century Dublin buildings , see Susan Harris’s “The Tender Mother and the Faithful Wife: Theater , Charity, and Female Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland” (page 207–30). The editors of Éire-Ireland would like to thank John Atteberry, senior reference librarian at the John J. Burns Library at Boston College, for locating these images in the library’s collection. Photography courtesy of Mark Esser. COVER 243 ...