Contents: Ronald Ayling [5] Sean O'Casey and the Abbey Theatre Gareth w. Dunleavy [17] Editor Moore to Playwright and Janet Egleson Dunleavy Hyde : On the making of The Tinker and the Fairy Dion Boucicault [31] Kerry, or Night with an introduction and Morning by Hilary Bellow Pablo Neruda [51] Twenty Love Poems and A rendering not a The Unhoping Song translation by Brian Coffey George Eogan [66] A Decade of Excavations at Knowth, Co. Meath John Nemo [80] A Bibliography of Writings byand about Patrick Kavanagh Reviews [107] by A. Norman Jeffares, James Mays, Kathleen O'Flaherty, Richard Burnham, Carolyn Rosenberg Report on the Colloquium on Progress in Hiberno- English Language Studies