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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘The National Trades' Political Union and Daniel O'Connell, 1830-1848’, by F. A. D'Arcy [7] ‘A Look at Captain Rock: Agrarian Rebellion in Ireland, 1815-1845’, by James W. O'Neill [17] ‘Daniel O'Connell and Women's Rights, One Letter’, by Jacqueline Van Voris [35] ‘Synge's Doorways: Portals and Portents’, by Thomas J. Morrissey [40] ‘Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-1923’, by Beth McKillen [52] ‘Leaguers, Covenanters, Moderates: British Support for Ulster, 1913-1914’, by William S. Rodner [68] ‘The Black Pig: Yeats's Early Apocalyptic Beast’, by Steven D. Putzel [86] Appréciation ‘Herbert Hughes (1882-1937), His Irish Country Songs’, by John Paddy Browne [103] Current Themes ‘How Much Oil Out There?’, by Seán O'Donnell [113] Books and Authors ‘An Duanaire: A Bridge for the Divided Mind’, by Jim Dunn [116] ‘Gifts from the Goddess: Heaney's "Bog People"’, by James J. Lafferty [127] Book Reviews [137] Notes and Queries [156] Cover [16]