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 Ardagh Chalice, Numerology, and the Stowe Missal’, by Pamela Berger [6] ‘The Lives - and Lies - of Maud Gonne’, by Conrad A. Balliett [17] ‘The Fenian Funeral of Terence Bellew McManus’, by Louis R. Bisceglia [45] ‘"Grown to Heaven Like a Tree" : The Scenery of The Countess Cathleen’, by Peter Alderson Smith [65] ‘Patrick Egan: Irish-American Minister to Chile, 1889-93’, by Joyce S. Goldberg [83] ‘Careless Father: Yeats and His Juniors,’, by Éamon Grennan [96] ‘Art and Life Blended: Douglas Hyde and the Literary Revival’, by Seán McMahon [112] Current Themes ‘Authentic Idioms’, by Desmond Rushe [126] ‘Energizing Ireland’, by Seán O'Donnell [129] Books and Authors ‘The Hard Life: Gaelic Autobiography and the Image of the Irish Language’, by Gregory McNab [113] ‘"What Stood in the Post Office/ With Pearse and Connolly?": the Case for Robert Emmet’, by Maureen Murphy [141] Book Reviews [144] Cover [82]