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

‘Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Nation Building and the Irish Language Revival Movement’, by Seán Cronin [7]. ‘The Issue of External Relations in the Anglo-Irish Negotiations of May-June, 1922’, by Joseph M. Curran [15]. ‘Landgartha and the Irish Dilemma’, by Catherine M. Shaw [26]. ‘“Nurse to All Rebellions”: Grace O’Malley and Sixteenth-Century Connacht’, by Mona L. Schwind, O.P. [40]. ‘Dunsker’s Brogue’, by Marian S. Robinson [62]. ‘Yeats’s Fergus as Sun God’, by Kenneth B. Newell [76]. ‘Flann O’Brien and Classical Satire: An Exegesis of The Hard Life’, by Mary Power [87]. ‘Finishing the Day: Nature and Grace in Two Novels’, by Brian Moore’, by J.H. Dorenkamp [103].

Appréciation: ‘Brian Coffey: An Interview’, by Parkman Howe [113]. Current Themes ‘Wild Oats’, by Desmond Rushe [124]. ‘The Continuing Irish Television Debate’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [127]. ‘The Median Game’, by Seán O’Donnell [131]. ‘Language Report: Fourth Quarter, 1977’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [134]. Books and Authors ‘“Where the Road from Laracor Leads”: On F. R. Higgins’, by Richard Burnham [139]. Book Reviews [150]. Notes and Queries [172]