Volume 9

VOLUME NINE · 2009
Contents

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Tribute to George Watson

• George Watson (1942–2009) Philip Bull
• Identity in the Work of George Watson Ann Blake
• Identity in George Watson’s Irish Identity and the Literary Revival Philip Bull

Articles

• The Use of the Pseudonym ‘Thornton MacMahon’ by the Young Irelander, Margaret Callan Anne MacCarthy
• Joseph Napier and the Irish Land Bills of 1852 Andrew Shields
• ‘Not the very lowest and poorest classes’: Irish Female Assisted Immigration to Australia in the 1830s Elizabeth Rushen
• The Commodification of Texts for the Irish Colonial Reader: a Survey of Market Practice, 1840–1900 Kevin Molloy
• Nicholas O’Donnell: ‘Australian born…but a good Irish scholar’ Val Noone
• Australia’s Irish Place Names Dymphna Lonerga

Document

• Fr William Hackett, Playing Providence: a Jesuit in Limerick, 1914–21 Brenda Niall

Book reviews

• Geraldine Stout and Matthew Stout, Newgrange. Pamela O’Neill
• Katrina Burge ed. Vikings and their Enemies. Clare Downham
• Robin Chapman Stacey, Dark Speech. Pamela O’Neill
• Philip O’Sullivan Beare, The Natural History of Ireland. Thomas Herron
• John Crowley and John Sheehan, The Iveragh Peninsula Margaret Coffey
• Charlie Dillon and Rióna Ní Fhrighil (eds), Aistruí Éireann. Nicholas M. Wolf
• Timothy McMahon, Grand Opportunity. Frances Devlin-Glass
• Ivor Browne, Music and Madness. Dolly McKinnon
• Fintan Vallely, Tuned Out. Dolly McKinnon
• Lyndon Fraser, Castles of Gold. Lindsay Proudfoot
• Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin, Migration in Irish History.Angela McCarthy
• Mary Ryllis Clarke, Loreto in Australia. Rosa MacGinley
• Daire Keogh, Edmund Rice. Val Noone
• Brenda Niall, The Riddle of Father Hackett. Edmund Campion