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

‘The Short Stories of Sean O’Faolain: Theory and Practice’, by Katherine Hanley, CSJ [3]. ‘George Moore’s The Lake: A Possible Source’, by John Cronin [12]. ‘Images of Swift: A Review of Some Recent Criticism’, by Robert W. Uphaus [16]. ‘The Backgrounds of "Eveline"’, by Albert J. Solomon [23]. ‘Maria Edgeworth and Her Father: the Literary Partnership’, by Patrick Murray [39]. ‘The Irish Judiciary in the 18th- and 19th-Centuries’, by John O’Donovan [51]. ‘The Formative Years of the Irish Diplomatic Service’, by Patrick Keatinge [57]. ‘The Fitzwilliam Crisis and Irish Nationalism’, by Rex Syndergaard [72]. ‘Trollope’s First Novel: A Re-examination’, by Doris R. Asmundsson [83]. ‘McLaverty’s People’, by John Wilson Foster [92]. ‘The Crisis of Identity in the Novels of Brian Moore’, by Murray Prosky [106]. ‘Joyce’s After the Race, the Races of Castlebar, and Dun Laoghaire’, by Donald T. Torchiana [119]. Current Themes ‘Drama: Regional and Dublin’, by Desmond Rushe [129]. ‘Music Appetite: Its Nourishment’, by Charles Acton [133]. ‘The Language: Second Quarter’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [140]. ‘Books and Authors’, by Seán McMahon [145]. Book Reviews [157]. Notes and Queries [158]. Cover [91]