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

Contents
Editors' Notes [3] ‘Ireland: America's Neutral Ally, 1939-1941’, by Carolle J. Carter [5] ‘The Artist-in-Exile: Brian Moore's North American Novels’, by John A. Scanlan [14] ‘Connecticut in the Irish-American Flaxseed Trade, 1750-1775’, by Thomas M. Truxes [34] ‘Socialism and the Nationalist Tradition in Ireland, 1798-1918’, by Michael Gallagher [63] ‘R. D. Joyce's Deirdre (1876): Heroic Narrative’, by Herbert V. Fackler [103] Appréciation ‘Looking to the Future: The Universality of Francis Stuart’, by William C. Barnwell, [113] Current Themes ‘Short-changed’, by Desmond Rushe [126] ‘A Real Navy, Soon?’, by Seán O'Donnell [129] ‘Language Report: First Quarter, 1977’, by Nollaig Ó Gadhra [132] Books and Authors ‘Seamus Heaney's "A Lough Neagh Sequence": Sources and Motifs’, by John Wilson Foster [138] Book Reviews [143] Notes and Queries [156] Cover [62]