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

Contents
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]