Editorial Staff: Joseph Connors, James T. Farrell, Lawrence O’Shaughnessy, Sean McMahon, Eóin McKiernan.

CONTENTS:Editor’s Notes [3]. ‘Next Parish to Boston: The Blasket Islands and Their Literature’, by Fraser Drew [6]. ‘Self and Soul in Yeats’s The Winding Stair’, by James H. O Brien [23]. ‘An Exile Returned: Moore and Yeats in Ireland’, by Jack Wayne Weaver [40]. ‘Irish Political Reality and Mary Lavin’s Tales From Bective Bridge’, by Robert W. Caswell [48]. ‘Applied Aquinas: James Joyce’s Aesthetics’, by Hugh T. Bredin [61]. ‘A Note on James Archer, S.J., 1550(?)-1620(?)’, by Denis Bergin [79]. Current Themes ‘The Irish Art Scene’, by Anthony Butler [94]. ‘Ecumenical Chronicle for 1967’, by Seán MacRéamoinn and John Horgan [98]. ‘Language Report: Last Quarter, 1967’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [103]. Books and Authors ‘A Reappraisal: The Valley of the Squinting Windows, Brinsley MacNamara (1890-1963)’, by Seán McMahon [106]. Reviews [117]. Notes and Queries [129]. ‘A Note on the Historicity of Yeats’s Stanzaic Pattern in "Easter 1916"’, by Ben L. Collins [129]. Our Contributors [132]. Cover [128]