Editor: James J. Blake. Book Review Editor: Robert E. Ward.

Contents
‘Connemara’, by Tim Robinson [3] ‘Irish and American Politics in the 18th Century and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"’, by Leo McNarnara [20] Cover [32] ‘The Problem of Irish Clerical Avarice in the Nineteenth Century’, by Emmet Larkin [33] ‘The Shan Van Vocht (Belfast, 1896-1899) and Irish Nationalism’, by Richard Harp [42] ‘Stereotypes and Caricatures of the Abbey Theatre (1910) in The Irishman’, by "Brinsley MacNamara"’, by Michael McDonnell [53] ‘At-Swim Two Birds and the Bardic Schools’, by Thomas B. O'Grady [65] ‘The European Recovery Program (The Marshall Plan) and Ireland: Summary and Assessment’, by Bernadette Whelan [78] ‘After the "Emergency": Ireland in the Post-War World’, by Desmond Dinan [85] ‘Co-operation and Rural Development in the West of Ireland’, by Chris Curtinand and Tony Varley [104] ‘Objective Narration in Liam O'Flaherty's Short Stories’, by Judith Washburn [120] Books and Authors ‘Maria Edgeworth, George Crabbe and Oliver Goldsmith: A Reassessment of Castle Rackrent’, by Beverly Schneller [126] Current Themes ‘The Famine Museum and the Restoration of Strokestown Park House, County Roscommon Luke Doddand’, by Marion Casey [132] ‘The Canon of Irish Drama’, by James Hurt [135] Book Reviews [139]