Editorial Staff: Lawrence O’Shaughnessy, Seán McMahon, Eóin McKiernan

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘A View of the Irish in America: 1887’, by Arthur Mitchell [7]. ‘Bás Nó Beatha?’, by Deasún Breatnach [13]. ‘Yeats and Irish in the Theatre’, by Oliver Snoddy [39]. ‘“Eveline”: Joyce’s Affirmation of Ireland’, by E. San Juan, Jr [46]. ‘The Structural Craftsmanship of J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea’, by Paul M. Levitt [53]. ‘Samuel Beckett: Dramatic Tradition and the Auslander’, by Thomas E. Porter, S.J. [62]. ‘Christ and Cuchulain: Interrelated Archetypes of Divinity and Heroism in Yeats’, by Janet Frank Egelson [76]. ‘The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella’, by Robin Skelton [86].

Appréciation: ‘Landlords’ Ireland’, by Pádraic Colum [109]. Current Themes ‘The Irish Art Scene’, by Anthony Butler [114]. ‘Ecumenical Chronicle’, by Séan Mac Réamoinn and John Horgan [117]. ‘The Opera in Ireland: Actual and Potential’, by Charles Acton [121]. Books and Authors ‘Eagle of the Empty Eyrie’, by Seán McMahon [138]. Reviews [152]. Notes and Queries [157]. Our Contributors [159]