Contents: Foreword [1] .Pr6ins~ Ni Chathdin Some Themes in Early Irish Lyric Poetry [3] .Proinsias Mac Cana The petite patrie in Modem Irish and Welsh Literature [13] .Alan Harrison John Toland and the Discovery of an Irish Manuscript in Holland [33] .Tleinz Kowk "George my belovd King, and Ireland my honour'd country": John O'Keeffe and Ireland [40] .Ann Saddlemyer Synge’s Soundscape [55] .Thomas Kinsella W.B. Yeats, the British Empire, James Joyce and Mother Grogan [69] .C6din Clwens The Mystique of the West in Joyce’s 'The DeaW [80] .Seamus Deane "The Second Coming": Coming Second; Coming in a Second [92] .Colin Smythe Some Aspects of Yeats Bibliography [101] .Augustine Martin That Childhood Country: Extracts from a Biography of Patrick Kavanagh [107] .I.C.C. Mays Flann (YBrien, Beckett and the Unde,cidable Text of Ulysses [127] .Thomas Kilroy A Generation of Playwrights [135] .Patrick Lynch CrFaolain’s Way: Pages from a Memoir [142] .Radiger Imhof How It is on the Fringes of Irish Fiction [151] .John Cronin John McCahern’s Amongst Women: Retrenchment and Renewal [168] .A Bouquet of Poems: Richard Murphy Orney Island [179] .Dennis O'Driscoll Terminals [180] .Mistaken Identity [181] .Derry Jeffares City Cent [183] .Tom MacIntyre Companion [184] .Pianissimo [185] .Noctis Equi [185] .Brian Donnelly Maurice Harmon: A Checklist of Publications [186] .Reviews by: Peter Denman, Fred Johnston, Christopher Murray, Andrew Carpenter, Denis Flannery, Ceert Lemout, Peter Levi, Ulf Dantanus, Barbara Freitag, John Fanagan, Fergus A. D'Arcy [190] . List of books reviewed: [215] .Books Received [216]