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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘First Link: Parnell's American Tour, 1800’, by Michael V. Hazel [6] ‘The Caterpillar and the Gracehoper: Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island’, by Harold Ferrar [25] ‘Daniel Maclise, Disraeli, and Fraser's Magazine’, by John Turpin [46] ‘George Moore: "The Little Catholic Boy of That Name"’, by Elizabeth Harris [64] ‘Lady Gregory and "The Book of the People"’, by Mary Helen Thuente [86] ‘Charity: The Measure of Morality in "Wandering Rocks"’, by John Wenke [100] Appréciation ‘Francis Ledwidge, Who Fought in Another Man's War’, by Alice Curtayne [114] Current Themes ‘Language Report: The Fortunes of Irish, 1979’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [128] Books and Authors ‘Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Language’, by James MacKillop [138] Book Reviews [149] Notes and Queries [156]