CONTENTS: Introduction by Aedeen CreminPolitics and Government??Precedents for Autonomous Welsh Government 1536-1653 by Peter R. RobertsPolitics in the Celtic World: Nineteenth-Century Cornwall by Ed JaggardIrish-Australians and Their Attitudes to the 1897 Federal Convention Election in New South Wales by Patrick M McCormackSetting the Boundaries: Colonisation, Imperialism and National Identity in Scotland in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries by Sybil JackContemporary Welsh Literature??Apocalypse Now? Contemporary Welsh Poetry and Fiction: Fear and Hope in Conflict by John RowlandsWhen Orality gives way to Literacy: Welsh Language Poetry and Prose at the turn of the Twentieth Century by Sion OwenBeing Ecumenical with the Truth: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Twentieth-Century Wales by M. Wynn ThomasLiterature and Cultural Identity??The 'both/and' Thought in Contemporary Irish Drama by Monica RandaccioOssian vs. Oisin: Sublime Cultural Identification in Macpherson's Ossianic Texts and W. B. Yeats' 'The Wanderings of Oisin' by Ken MonteithOssian and the Antipodes: the Macpherson Controversy and Some Australian Connections with It by Brian TaylorJames Macpherson - Romanticism, Authentication and Nationalism by Sophie BuckTo New Edinburgh via Glasgow? Political, Economic and Historical Machinations of Nineteeth-Century Highland Bagpipe Literature in Otago & Southland, New Zealand by Jennie ColemanPolitics and the Past??900 Years of Mayhem: The Irish Legal Materials by Neil McLeodFrom Bede to Bragg: the Politics of Literature about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne by Pamela O'NeillBreton vitae and Political Need in the Cartulary of Sainte-Croix de Quimperle by Karen JankulakEarly Irish Literature??Sex, Lies and Politics - The Commodification of the Body in Early Christian Irish Literature by Tracey NewlandsTain Bo Cuailnge and Celtic Battle Strategy in Irish Medieval Sources: Some Issues of lnterpretation by Ewa SadowskaIrish Politics??In Search of an Irish Mandela by Simon AdamsEthnic Conflict Resolution and the Politics of the Irish Language in Northern Ireland by Diarmait Mac Giolla ChriostLiterature and Irish Politics??To Redefine 'Warrior': Vincent Buckley and the Irish Hunger Strike by Philip HarveyThe Beggar-King and the Big Fella: Sean O'Faolain's Daniel O'Connell by Ewan MorrisParnell: Politics, Poetry and Prose by Emma HuntSeamus Heaney: the Political Poetics of a Bog Man by Anne CollettThe Body of Mary Dwyer by Jonathan M Wooding