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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘The Making of NATO and the Partition of Ireland’, by Seán Cronin [6] ‘The Ó Dálaigh Family of Bardic Poets, 1139-1691’, by James E. Doan [19] ‘Raids and Reprisals: Ireland, Eye-Witness (1923)’, by Simone Téry, trans. Marilyn Gaddis Rose [32] ‘The Belfast Uniform: Theobald Wolfe Tone’, by Nancy J. Curtin [40] ‘Rumors of War: Elizabeth Bowen's Last September and J. G. Farrell's Troubles’, by Margaret Scanlan [70] ‘Irish Fiction: A Mirror for Specifics’, by Klaus Lubbers [90] Appréciation ‘Michael Francis Doyle of Philadelphia’, by John Rossi [105] Current Themes ‘Vetting the Herd’, by Seán O'Donnell [130] Books and Authors ‘Flann O'Brien's Uncles and Nephews’, by Sanford Pinsker [133] ‘The Hostage Reconsidered’, by Bert Cardullo [139] Book Reviews [144] Notes and Queries [158] Cover [69]