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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Gaelic Background of Carleton’s Traits and Stories’, by Cathal G. Ó Háinle [6]. ‘American Public Opinion and Irish Neutrality, 1939-1945’, by Raymond James Rayrnond [20]. ‘Yeats’s Parnell: Sources of His Myth’, by Michael A. Steinman [46]. ‘The Meaning of the "Cold Eye" in Yeats’s Epitaph’, by Joseph M. Hassett [61]. ‘The Sage Who Deep in Central Nature Delves: Liam 0' Flaherty’s Short Stories’, by Richard J. Thornpson [80]. ‘Seed Like Stars: Kavanagh’s Nature’, by Lene Klejs [98].

Appréciation: ‘Farrell in Ireland’, by Dennis Flynn [109]. Current Themes ‘Private Enterprise in Irish Schools’, by George Rice [132]. ‘Early American Science: The Irish Contribution’, by Seán O’Donnell [134]. Books and Authors ‘Change Naturally: The Fiction of O’Flaherty, O’Faolain, McGahern’, by Grattan Freyer [138]. Book Reviews [146]. Notes and Queries [154]