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

Contents: Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘“You Will Easy Know a Doffer”: The Folklore of the Linen Industry in Northern Ireland’, by Betty Messenger [6]. ‘Irish Conscription, 1941’, by Joseph L. Rosenberg [16]. ‘Strains of Modernization: The Republic of Ireland under Lemass and Lynch’, by William G. Shade [26]. ‘Danish Church Frescoes: A Clue to Medieval Irish Art?’, by James Mills [47]. ‘Crazy Jane: A Cycle of Popular Literature’, by Ole Munch-Pedersen [56]. ‘"That Trenchant Childhood Route"?: Quest in Edna O'Brien’s Novels’, by Lotus Snow [74]. ‘Mindful of the Body: Medical Allusions in Beckett’s Murphy’, by Hugh Culik [84].

Appréciation: ‘Thinking of Denis Devlin’, by W illiam G. Downey, Jr [102]. ‘Current Themes Where Stars Once Walked’, by Desmond Rushe [115]. ‘The Multinationals Justified?’, by Seán O’Donnell [118]. Books and Authors ‘Private Road: Memory and Escape in the Fiction of Forrest Reid’, by BrianTaylor [122]. ‘Lord Dunsany’s Centennial: A Memoir’, by Patrick Mahony [126]. Book Reviews [131]. Notes and Queries [155]. Cover [15]