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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘William Orpen Reconsidered’, by John Turpin [7]. ‘A. V. Dicey and the Destruction of Parnell’, by Trowbridge H. Ford [17]. ‘Glory and Shadow: AE’s Supernatural Imagery’, by William Daniels [46]. ‘Joyce and the Dublin Theosophists: “Vegetable Verse” and Story’, by Bonnie Kime Scott [54]. ‘“Hoarder of the Common Ground”: Tradition and Ritual in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry’, by Arthur E. McGuinness [71].

Appréciation: ‘Jeremiah Curtin: American Pioneer in Irish Folklore’, by Maureen Murphy [93]. Current Themes ‘ The Great 50-Mile Debate’, by Seán O’Donnell [104]. ‘Language Report: First Quarter, 1978’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [107]. Books and Authors ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, by Arthur Nethercot [114]. ‘Herbert Trench’s Deirdre Wedded (1901): Neglect Merited’, by Herbert V. Fackler [120]. Book Reviews [127]. Notes and Queries [158]. Cover Note [45].