Editor: Eóin McKiernan. Associate Editor: Henry F. Beechhold. Assistant Editors: Seán McMahon and Lawrence O’Shaughnessy.

‘“Ireland at the U.N."’, by Thomas A. Mulkeen [3]. ‘A German View of Anglo-lrish Relations in 1800: Friedrich Von Gentz on the Act of Union’, by Dr. M. A. Bond. [13]. ‘The Irish Language and Tudor Government’, by Donald Jackson. [21]. ‘Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore’, by Francis N. Mayer [29]. ‘Daniel Corkery and Irish Cultural Nationalism’, by Lawrence J. McCaffrey [5]. ‘A Reconsideration: Daniel Corkery and His Ideas on Cultural Nationalism’, by Emmet Larkin [42]. ‘The Bending of the Bough and the Heather Field: Two Portraits of the Artists’, by Patricia McFate [52]. ‘The Artful Failure of George Moore’s Plays’, by Paul A. Newlin [62]. ‘Heroic Strivings in The Playboy of the Western World’, by Leslie D. Foster [85]. ‘A Manuscript Letter from Michael Banim (1874)’, by W. J. McCormack [95]. ‘Keylessness, Sex and the Promised Land: Associated Themes in Ulysses’, by Deborah Tannen Paterakis [97]. ‘Pages from an Irishman’s Diary’, by Pádraig Ó Maidín [109]. Current Themes ‘Strength from the Earth’ [114]. ‘“Quick Bright Things ...."’ [117]. ‘The Economic Development of the Gaeltacht’ [124]. Notes and Queries ‘Ethnic Drama Research’ [131]. ‘Irish Postage Stamps’ [132]. Book Reviews [133]