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]