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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘John Sampson and the Tinkers’, by Robert Pohle [5]. ‘The Economies of Denmark and Ireland Compared’, by Kieran Kennedy [18]. ‘The Sunningdale Strategy and the Northern Majority Consent Doctrine in Anglo-Irish Relations’, by Paul F. Power [35]. ‘Sile-na-gCíioch’, byJames H. Dunn [68]. ‘Index of Irish Newspapers, 1900-1922 (Part II)’, by Virginia E. Glandon [86]. Current Themes ‘Siamsa and Telly Culture’, by Desmond Rushe [116]. ‘Gaelic and the Druids’, by Seán O’Donnell [119]. ‘Language Report: Fourth Quarter, 1976,’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [123]. Books and Authors ‘William Carleton: Artist of Reality’, by Eileen Sullivan [130]. Book Reviews [141]. Notes and Queries [159]. Cover [67]