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 and the Movies: From the Volta Cinema to RTÉ’, by James MacKillop [7] ‘Necessary Ambiguity: Nationalism and Myth in Ireland’, by J. R. Archer [23] ‘Old Nurse: W. B. Yeats and the Modern Fairy Tale’, by Gale C. Schricker [38] ‘Law Before Violence? - The Protestant Paramilitaries in Ulster Politics’, by Arthur Aughey and Colin Mcllheney [55] ‘Colored Photographs: William Carleton's Contribution to the Short Story Tradition’, by Harold Orel [75] ‘Éamon de Valéra and the Forces of Opposition in America, 1919-1920’, by Dennis M. Sullivan [99] ‘Regina Maria Roche and the Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel’, by Natalie Schroeder [116] Current Themes ‘Irish Time’, by Seán O'Donnell [131] Books and Authors ‘A Demographer Looks at Cúirt an Mheán Oiche’, by Kevin O'Neill [135] ‘The Importance of Being Austin’, by Robert F. Garratt [143] Book Reviews [152] Cover [6]