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

Editors’ Notes [3]. ‘A Letter and a Poem: New Sources for the Life of Mangan’, by Ellen Shannon-Mangan [6]. ‘Social Aspects of Fenianism in Connacht and Leinster, 1858-1870’, by Brian Griffin [16]. ‘The Past Is a Burning Pattern: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September’, by Phyllis Lassner [40]. ‘Le Fanu’s House by the Marketplace’, by Wayne Hall [55]. ‘Memoirs of My Dead Life: George Moore’s Comic Autobiography’, by Robert Langenfeld [73]. ‘Diarmuid and Grainne Again: Julia O’Faolain’s No Country for Old Men’, by Ann Weekes [89].

Appréciation: ‘William H. McLees, Lexicographer’, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe [103]. Current Themes ‘Ráth Cairn, The Youngest Gaeltacht’, by Nancy Stenson [107]. ‘Pages of the Past’, by Seán O’Donnell [118]. Books and Authors ‘The Irish in North America’, by Donald H. Akenson [122]. ‘Yeats: Skeptic on Stage’, by Warren Leamon [129]. ‘Nationalism on the Dublin Stage’, by Sven Eric Molin and Robin Goodefellowe [135]. Book Reviews [139]. Notes and Queries [159]. Cover Note [54]