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

‘Aviation in Ireland - 1784 to 1922’, by Captain J. C. Kelly-Rogers OBE FRAES [3]. ‘Dublin to Boston, 1719’, by Robert J. Hunter [18]. ‘American-Irish: West and East’, by James P. Walsh [25]. ‘Why “Sinn Féin?”’, by Joseph Sweeney [33]. ‘A Fenian Letter’ [41]. ‘Unpublished Letters of Sean O’Casey’, by Ronald Rollins, Ed. [43]. ‘Nobel Deeds: Jack B. Yeats’, by Bruce Arnold [48]. ‘The Fortunes of Language’ [58]. ‘The Origins and Early History of the Irish Jig’, by Declan F. Townsend [59]. ‘Litríocht Chorca Dhuibhne Agus An Béaloideas’, by Seán Ó Suilleabháin [66]. ‘At Swim-Two-Birds and the Novel as Self-Evident Sham’, by Ruth A. Roberts [76]. ‘St. Catherine of Siena in Ireland’, by H. J. O’Brien [98]. ‘The Wormwood Revisions’, by Thomas Dillon Redshaw [111]. Current Themes ‘Festivals and Festivals’, by Charles Acton [157]. ‘The National Language: First Quarter 1971’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [166]. Book Reviews [171]. Notes and Queries [186]. Cover [24]