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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘The Ordeal of O'Conor of Belanagare’, by Catherine Coogan Ward and Robert E. Ward [6] ‘Sir Warham St. Leger and the First Munster Plantation, 1568-69, by Peter J. Piveronus, Jr. [15] ‘Transparent Poses: Castle Rackrent and The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon’, by Joseph F. Connelly [37] ‘The Ireland of 1874: Journal of Charles P. Daly (1816-1899)’, by Mark K. Neville, Jr. [44] ‘"The Cod-Bewildered Schoolboy": Austin Clarke's Later Poetry’, by Adrian Frazier [52] ‘The Frenzy of Christy: Synge and Buile Shuibhne’, by Declan Kiberd [68] ‘Breaking the Shell of Solitude: Some Poems of Thomas Kinsella’, by Peggy F. Broder [80] ‘Joyce's Dubliners: History, Ideology, and Social Reality’, by Margaret Chesnutt [93] Current Themes ‘Irish-American Scientists’, by Seán O'Donnell [106] Books and Authors ‘Tailor Tim Buckley: Folklore, Literature and Seanchas an Táilliúra’, by James M. Cahalan [110] ‘Ulster Poets and the Protestant Muse’, by James Liddy [118] Book Reviews [128] Notes and Queries [159] Cover [109]