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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Relevance of Irish History: The Gladstone-Dicey Debate about Home Rule, 1886-87’, by Richard A. Cosgrove [6]. ‘For and Against an Union’, by Homer L. Calkin [22]. ‘Irish Wrong: Samuel Lover and the Stage-Irishman’, by Sally E. Foster. [34]. ‘Allusion and Meaning in Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance’, by Elissa S. Guralnick and Paul M. Levitt [45]. ‘His Hour Come Round at Last?: W. B. Yeats as Playwright’, by Audrey S. Eyler [52]. ‘A Kingdom of Commoners: The Moral Art of Frank O’Connor’, by Richard J. Thompson [65]. ‘The Making of Strumpet City: James Plunkett’s Historical Vision’, by James M. Cahalan [81].

Appréciation: ‘Appealing to the Hearts of Men: John McCormack, 1884-194’, by Gordon T. Ledbetter [101]. Current Themes ‘Imported Variety’, by Desmond Rushe [115]. ‘Decision at Wood Quay’, by Seán O’Donnell [118]. ‘Language Report: Third Quarter, 1978’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [121]. Books and Authors ‘Ulster Poets and the Catholic Muse’, by James Liddy [126]. ‘Trinity: The Formulas of History’, by Wayne Hall [137]. Book Reviews [145]. Notes and Queries [156]