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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Ordeal of O’Conor of Belanagare’, by Catherine Coogan Ward and Robert E. Ward [6]. ‘Sir Warham St. Leger and the First Munster Plantation, 1568-69, by Peter J. Piveronus, Jr. [15]. ‘Transparent Poses: Castle Rackrent and The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon’, by Joseph F. Connelly [37]. ‘The Ireland of 1874: Journal of Charles P. Daly (1816-1899)’, by Mark K. Neville, Jr. [44]. ‘“The Cod-Bewildered Schoolboy”: Austin Clarke’s Later Poetry’, by Adrian Frazier [52]. ‘The Frenzy of Christy: Synge and Buile Shuibhne’, by Declan Kiberd [68]. ‘Breaking the Shell of Solitude: Some Poems of Thomas Kinsella’, by Peggy F. Broder [80]. ‘Joyce’s Dubliners: History, Ideology, and Social Reality’, by Margaret Chesnutt [93]. Current Themes ‘Irish-American Scientists’, by Seán O’Donnell [106]. Books and Authors ‘Tailor Tim Buckley: Folklore, Literature and Seanchas an Táilliúra’, by James M. Cahalan [110]. ‘Ulster Poets and the Protestant Muse’, by James Liddy [118]. Book Reviews [128]. Notes and Queries [159]. Cover [109]