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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘Ireland and the Movies: From the Volta Cinema to RTÉ’, by James MacKillop [7]. ‘Necessary Ambiguity: Nationalism and Myth in Ireland’, by J. R. Archer [23]. ‘Old Nurse: W. B. Yeats and the Modern Fairy Tale’, by Gale C. Schricker [38]. ‘Law Before Violence? - The Protestant Paramilitaries in Ulster Politics’, by Arthur Aughey and Colin Mcllheney [55]. ‘Colored Photographs: William Carleton’s Contribution to the Short Story Tradition’, by Harold Orel [75]. ‘Éamon de Valéra and the Forces of Opposition in America, 1919-1920’, by Dennis M. Sullivan [99]. ‘Regina Maria Roche and the Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel’, by Natalie Schroeder [116]. Current Themes ‘Irish Time’, by Seán O’Donnell [131]. Books and Authors ‘A Demographer Looks at Cúirt an Mheán Oiche’, by Kevin O’Neill [135]. ‘The Importance of Being Austin’, by Robert F. Garratt [143]. Book Reviews [152]. Cover [6]