Editorial Staff: Lawrence O'Shaughnessy, Seán McMahon, Eóin McKierna

Contents
‘Wolfe Tone's Diplomacy’, by J. J. St. Mark. [3] ‘Mr. Punch and Daniel O'Connell’, by Elizabeth Petuchowski [12] ‘Yeats, Johnson, and Ireland's Heroic Dead’, by Barton R. Friedman [32] ‘Love and Famine, Family and Country in Trollope's Castle Richmond’, by Hugh L. Hennedy [48] ‘The "First Tenor" in James Joyce's " A Mother"’, by John Scarry [67] ‘Population, The Potato and Depression’, by Gale Edward Christianson [70] ‘An Irishman's Diary’, by Pádraig Ó Maidín [96] Appréciation ‘Constantine P. Curran’, by Richard M. Kain [101] ‘Beethoven's Irish Symphony’, by James Travis [103] ‘The Clonfinlough Stone’, by Edna M. McGlynn [107] Current Themes ‘The Future Development of the Oireachtas’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [111] Rediscovery of Harp Tradition’, by Charles Acton [114] ‘The Abbey's New Policies’, by Desmond Rushe [133] Notes and Queries ‘The Curran Library’ [135] ‘Cattle: The Wealth’ [136] ‘Irish Stamps’ [139] Book Reviews [140] Cover [See Summer Issue]