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

Editors’ Notes. [3]. ‘A Moral Spectacle: American Relief and the Famine, 1845-49’, by Timothy Jerome Sarbaugh [6]. ‘Rough Rug-Headed Kerns: The Irish Gunman in the Popular Novel’, by Alan Titley [15]. ‘An Piarsach agus an Ghaeilge san Ollscoil le Donnchadh Ó Suilleabháin [39]. ‘Ulster Protestants and the Sinn Féin Press, 1914-22’, by Richard Davis. [60]. ‘Raths and Clacháns: The Homogeneity of Early Irish Society’, by Christopher P. Toumey [86]. ‘“Bright Quincunx Newly Risen”: Thomas Kinsella’s Inward "I"’, by Arthur E. McGuinness [106]. Current Themes ‘Derry Translations’, by Desmond Rushe [126]. ‘Majority: The International Yeats Summer School’, by Peter Alderson Smith [129]. ‘Alcan: New Jobs, Lost Work’, by Sean O’Donnell [135]. Books and Authors ‘Seamus Heaney’s "Salvation in Surrender"’, by Gregory A. Schirmer [139]. Book Reviews [147]. Notes and Queries [155]