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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘First Link: Parnell’s American Tour, 1800’, by Michael V. Hazel [6]. ‘The Caterpillar and the Gracehoper: Bernard Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island’, by Harold Ferrar [25]. ‘Daniel Maclise, Disraeli, and Fraser’s Magazine’, by John Turpin [46]. ‘George Moore: "The Little Catholic Boy of That Name"’, by Elizabeth Harris [64]. ‘Lady Gregory and "The Book of the People"’, by Mary Helen Thuente [86]. ‘Charity: The Measure of Morality in "Wandering Rocks"’, by John Wenke [100].

Appréciation: ‘Francis Ledwidge, Who Fought in Another Man’s War’, by Alice Curtayne [114]. Current Themes ‘Language Report: The Fortunes of Irish, 1979’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [128]. Books and Authors ‘Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Language’, by James MacKillop [138]. Book Reviews [149]. Notes and Queries [156]