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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘A Similarity in Our Causes’, by Seán O'Sullivan [6] ‘The Legitimacy of Opposition: The Collapse of the 1974 Northern Ireland Executive’, by Ian McAllister [25] ‘Newman's Difficult Dublin Years’, by Nora M. Kelley [43] ‘George Moore's "The Lovers of Orelay" and the Shaping of Hail and Farewell’, by Lis Christensen [56] ‘The First Irish Play: Casadh an tSugáin’, by Sean McMahon [73] ‘The Quest for Individuality: Yeats's Four Plays for Dancers’, by George M. Murphy [86] ‘Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows as Feminine Tragedy’, by Ellen S. Spangler [97] Appréciation ‘D. P. Moran and Gaelic Cultural Revitalization’, by Daniel J. O'Neil [1O9] Current Themes ‘Setting Broken Bones’, by Desmond Rushe [114] ‘Language Report: Third Quarter, 1977’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [117] ‘Cockles and Mussels’, by Seán O'Donnell [122] Books and Authors ‘Paul Vincent Carroll and the Theatre in Scotland’, by John D. Conway [125] Book Reviews [133] Notes and Queries [156] Cover [5]