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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Archbishop Lynch’s The Evils of Wholesale and Improvident Emigration from Ireland (1864)’, by Gerald J. Stortz, Ed. [6]. ‘Many Ferries: Jack B. Yeats and J. M. Synge’, by Hilary Pyle [17]. ‘At the Very Doorstep: Irish Labor and the National Question’, by Ronald Munck [36]. ‘Brinsley MacNamara’s Penny Dreadful’, by Ruth Fleischmann [52]. ‘Six Unpublished Letters of Charles Stewart Parnell’, by Raymond James Raymond, Ed. [75]. ‘The Doctor’s Wife: Brian Moore and the Failure of Realism’, by Jeanne A. Flood [80]. ‘Enigmatic Ghosts of Swift in Yeats and Johnston’, by Ronald G. Rollins [103].

Appréciation: ‘Éireannach Éigin: William Jo Bradley (1892-1981), Sinn Féin Advocate’, by Dennis Clark [116]. Current Themes ‘Language Report: Valid Dictions and Thanks’, by Alan Titley [127]. ‘Settling the Traveling People’, by Seán O’Donnell [134]. Book Reviews [139]. Notes and Queries [150]. Cover [16].