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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Ireland: America’s Neutral Ally, 1939-1941’, by Carolle J. Carter [5]. ‘The Artist-in-Exile: Brian Moore’s North American Novels’, by John A. Scanlan [14]. ‘Connecticut in the Irish-American Flaxseed Trade, 1750-1775’, by Thomas M. Truxes [34]. ‘Socialism and the Nationalist Tradition in Ireland, 1798-1918’, by Michael Gallagher [63]. ‘R. D. Joyce’s Deirdre (1876): Heroic Narrative’, by Herbert V. Fackler [103].

Appréciation: ‘Looking to the Future: The Universality of Francis Stuart’, by William C. Barnwell, [113]. Current Themes ‘Short-changed’, by Desmond Rushe [126]. ‘A Real Navy, Soon?’, by Seán O’Donnell [129]. ‘Language Report: First Quarter, 1977’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [132]. Books and Authors ‘Seamus Heaney’s “A Lough Neagh Sequence”: Sources and Motifs’, by John Wilson Foster [138]. Book Reviews [143]. Notes and Queries [156]. Cover [62].