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

‘Valentine Greatrakes: A Seventeenth-Century “Touch-Doctor”’, by Lawrence J. Arnold [3]. ‘Michael Davitt: The “Preacher of Ideas,” 1881-1906’, by James M. Cahalan [13]. ‘Macready, Griffin, and the Tragedy Gisippus’, by John Cronin [34]. ‘Talent and Tradition in Yeats’ On Baile’s Strand’, by Patrick A. McCarthy [45]. ‘The Comic Structure of Joyce’s Ulysses’, by Michael A. Klug [63]. ‘Studying Out of the Self-Educator: Frank O’Connor and German Literature’, by Paul F. Casey [85]. ‘A Lost Play from a Legendary Source: “J. J .Jones’s” Deirdre’, by Herbert V. Fackler [98].

Appréciation: ‘“Big Windows”: The Writings of Peadar O’Donnell’, by Grattan Freyer [106]. Current Themes ‘A Year of Irish Art: 1975’, by Desmond MacAvock [115]. ‘Theatre: New Resources, New Responsibilities’, by Desmond Rushe [119]. ‘Early Irish Scientists’, by Seán O’Donnell [122]. ‘Language Report: Fourth Quarter, 1975’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [126]. Books and Authors ‘“Leave Troubling the Lord God”: A Note on Synge and Religion’, by Seán McMahon [132]. ‘“Adrift from the World”: A Note on John Masefield and Ireland’, by Fraser Drew [141]. Book Reviews [144]. Notes and Queries [154]. Cover [33]