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

Contents
‘Irish Nationalists and Chicago Politics in the 1880's’, by Michael F. Funchion [3] ‘The Desmond-Imperial Alliance of 1529: Its Effect on Henry VIII's Policy Toward Ireland’, by Peter J. Piveronus [19] ‘Hugh (Blazes) Boylan: The Last O'Neill’, by Pat M. Esslinger and Duane R.Carr [32] ‘Myles na Gopaleen: Mystic, Horse-doctor, Hackney Journalist and Ideological Catalyst’, by Miles Orvell and David Powell [44] Appréciation ‘Peter Yorke and Progressivism in California, 1908’, by James P. Walsh [73] ‘"Our One Philosophical Critic": John Eglinton’, by Mary E. Bryson [81] Current Themes ‘Consorts in Concert’, by Charles Acton [89] ‘Language Report: First Quarter 1975’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [97] ‘Theatre: McMastery’, by Desmond Rushe [102] ‘Peat Pays Off!’, by Seán O'Donnell [105] Books and Authors ‘Violent Prophecies: The Writer and Northern Ireland’, by Joseph Browne [109] ‘Nudity and Nakedness: Jack B. Yeats and Robert Graves’, by R. Patrick Murphy [119] Book Reviews [124] Cover [158] Notes and Queries [159]