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

‘By Memory Inspired: Themes and Forces in Recent Irish Writing’, by Maurice Harmon [3]. ‘American Efforts to Discredit De Valera During World War II’, by T. Ryle Dwyer [20]. ‘Ireland and the French Revolution’, by C. J. Woods [34]. ‘The Young Charles Stewart Parnell, 1874-1876’, by Michael V. Hazel [42]. ‘Austin Clarke and Yeats’ Alleged Jealousy of George Fitzmaurice’, by Carol Gelderman [62]. ‘My Chief of Men: Yeats’s Juvenila and Shelley’s Alastor’, by Adele M. Dalsimer [71]. ‘Imagining the North: Violence and the Writers’, by D. E. S. Maxwell [91].

Appréciation: ‘Frank O’Connor and the Comedy of Revolution’, by Gary T. Davenport [108]. Current Themes ‘Mammon And?’, by Desmond Rushe [117]. ‘Damned Lies and Statistics or How Fares Music, My Masters?’, by Charles Acton [120]. ‘The Arts and Bombs’, by Ray Rosenfield [129]. Notes and Queries ‘A Note on a Skye Song’, by Paul G. Brewster [133]. ‘Flood Waters Destroy Irish Library’ [135]. Book Reviews [137]. Cover [33]. Announcement [99]