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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘Yeats and the Folklore of the Irish Revival’, by John Wilson Foster [6] ‘Old Chartists, Fenians, and New Socialists’, by John Newsinger [19] ‘The Church of Ireland and the Patriot Movement in the Late Eighteenth Century’, by F.G. James [47] ‘That Surviving Sign: John Montague's The Bread God (1968)’, by Thomas Dillon Redshaw [56] ‘A Tudor Writer's Tracts on Ireland, His Rhetoric’, by John P. Harrington. [92] ‘The "Curragh Mutiny" and the House of Lords’, by Peter L. de Rosa [104] Current Themes ‘Irish Educational Policy: Making Bad Butter’, by George Rice [121] ‘Drift-Bottles and Whitecaps’, by Seán O'Donnell [124] ‘Language Report, 1982; One Hundred Years A-Going’, by Alan Titley [127]Books and Authors ‘Forrest Reid, Uladh, and the Ulster Literary Theatre’, by Peter Mclvor [134] ‘The Countess Cathleen and the Otherworld’, by Peter Alderson Smith [141] Book Reviews [147] Notes and Queries [159] Cover [45]