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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘Sir Horace Plunkett and Irish Politics, 1890-1914’, by Paul L. Rempe [6] ‘A Sketch of Irish Landscape Painting’, by Anne Crookshank [21] ‘The Culture of Hope and the Culture of Despair: The Print Media and 19th-Century Irish Emigration’, by Robert S. Fortner [32] ‘Echoes of Micah in Swift's Modest Proposal’, by Edward Craney Jacobs [49] ‘Shanties and Shiftlessness: The Immigrant Irish of Henry Thoreau’ by George E. Ryan [54] ‘From Rory and Paddy to Boucicault's Myles, Shaun and Conn: The Irishman on the London Stage, 1830-1860’, by James Malcolm Nelson [79] ‘Old Men and Memories: Yeats and Beckett’, by Ronald G. Rollins [106] Appréciation ‘George Francis FitzGerald and his Flying Machine’, by Stewart Sharpless [120] Current Themes ‘MacLiammóir and The Gate’, by Desmond Rushe [127] ‘The Hills of Donegal’, by Seán O'Donnell [130] ‘Language Report: Second Quarter, 1978’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [133] Books and Authors ‘View from the Bridge: Irish Writing, 1977-78’, by Éamon Grennan [141] Book Reviews [148] Notes and Queries [158]