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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Ardagh Chalice, Numerology, and the Stowe Missal’, by Pamela Berger [6]. ‘The Lives - and Lies - of Maud Gonne’, by Conrad A. Balliett [17]. ‘The Fenian Funeral of Terence Bellew McManus’, by Louis R. Bisceglia [45]. ‘“Grown to Heaven Like a Tree”: The Scenery of The Countess Cathleen’, by Peter Alderson Smith [65]. ‘Patrick Egan: Irish-American Minister to Chile, 1889-93’, by Joyce S. Goldberg [83]. ‘Careless Father: Yeats and His Juniors,’, by Éamon Grennan [96]. ‘Art and Life Blended: Douglas Hyde and the Literary Revival’, by Seán McMahon [112].

Current Themes ‘Authentic Idioms’, by Desmond Rushe [126]. ‘Energizing Ireland’, by Seán O’Donnell [129]. Books and Authors ‘The Hard Life: Gaelic Autobiography and the Image of the Irish Language’, by Gregory McNab [113]. ‘“What Stood in the Post Office / With Pearse and Connolly?”: the Case for Robert Emmet’, by Maureen Murphy [141]. Book Reviews [144]. Cover [82]