Contents: John Wilson Foster The Topographical Tradition in Anglo-lrish Poetry [169] .Margaret MacCurtain Pre-Famine Peasantry in Ireland: Definition and Theme [188] .Seamus Heaney Poems ("Ocean’s Love to Ireland"; "North"; "Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces") [199] .Dermot Foley A Minstrel Boy with a Satchel of Books [204] . James Simmons Poems ("On the Beach" ; "Last Post") [218] .Alan J. Ward Parliamentary Procedures and the Machinery of Government in Ireland [222] .Pearse Hutchinson Poems ("Knife-Day" ; "Slave Chains" ; "Inter-Crevice Memo" ; Monastic Luxury Lis Christensen George Moore’s Portrait of Æ in Hail and Farewell [248] .James Mays Pons Asinorum: Form and Value in Beckett’s Writing, with some Comments on Kafka and de Sade [268] .Reviews by Seamus Deane, Maurice Harmon, Alf MacLochlainn, Hilary Berrow, W. J. McCormack, Paul F. Botheroyd, Rivers Carew, Janet Egleson Dunleavy, James Mays, c. 6 Danachair [283] .BOOKS RECEIVED [304] .