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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘The Art and Politics of the Parnell Monument’, by Timothy J. O’Keefe [6]. ‘Energy, Ecstasy, Elegy: Yeats and the Death of Robert Gregory’, by Robert Tracy [26]. ‘English Roman Catholics and the Irish Free State in the 1930s’, by Thomas R. Greene [48]. ‘Synge’s Hecuba’, by D. S. Neff [74]. ‘Ireland’s Manuscript Heritage’, by Brian Ó Cuív [87]. Current Themes ‘Ireland’s Wood, Ireland’s Coal’, by Seán O’Donnell [111]. Books and Authors ‘Catholics and Celts in George Borrow’s Lavengro-Romany Rye’, by F. J. McLynn [115]. ‘Juniper, Otherwise Known: Poems’, by Paulin and Muldoon’, by Adrian Frazier [123]. ‘Chaucer’s Devil Among the Irish’, by Michael Murphy [133]. Book Reviews [139]. Notes and Queries [158]. Cover [73]