Contents: Terence Brown Dublin in Twentieth-Century Writing: Methaphor and Subject [7] .Roger McHugh Bloomsday,June 1977 [22] .Bernice Schrank "You needn't say no more": Language and the Problems of Communication in Sean O'Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman [23] .Brian Go ffey Xenia [39] .Richard Ryan God the Father; Kohoutek; Helix; Going [40] .Francis Stuart "The Black Rainbow" : An Extract from a Work in Progress [45] .Stan Smith Precarious Guest: The Poetry of Denis Devlin [51] .DenisJohnston Giants in Those Days of Shaw, De Valera and Sir William Haley [68] .IASAIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1976 [74] .Reviews by: Maurice Harmon; ] .C.C. Mays; Roland McHugh; Eamon Grennan; Marianne Koenig; Christopher Murray; Roger McHugh, Redmond O'Hanlon;] iirgen Wolter; Patricia McFate [108] .Books Received [133]