Appreciations: Paddy Byrne, William Gabriel Lyons and Tommy Bourne, 6-7

Thomas Crampton – extracts from his diary of 1869: a Wicklow man returns for his bride, by Richard Douglas, 9

Dunlavin per Slater’s Directory 1881 by John Lynott, 13

Fiach Mac Hugh O’Byrne (a Wicklow biography no. 8) by Cora Crampton, 15

James Eustace, 3^rd Viscount Baltinglass (a Wicklow biography no. 9) by Cora Crampton, 16

Famine in Wicklow, 1846-7: extracts from British Parliamentary papers by Maeve Baker, 17

Irish-French Quaker connections during the 18^th century by Margaret P. O’Hare, 30

Marriage in Ireland before the Famine: a case study of Rathvilly Parish by Susan E. Hood, 33

‘Baltinglass of Yesteryear’ a poem (1915) by Ben Dwyer, 41

Tinahely over the centuries; a brief history by Rev. Canon Henry V. Boake, 42

The Hollywood highwayman: Captain James Freney by Dorothy Leonard, 56

Bacon curing in Baltinglass in the early Twentieth Century by Maureen Darcy, 59

Ballymore-Eustace: some historical notes by Michael Dore, 61

Grangecon : a place remembered by Lil Moore, 79

Book review: Jimmy O’Toole’s Grange, Co. Carlow: The Path to the Present’ (1987), by Joseph Rattigan, 84

Index to the Coolattin Estate Emigration Records 1847-56 part 3 (G to K), 91, contributed by Paul Gorry

Book review: Roger Stalley’s The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland by Joseph Rattigan, 86

Book review: Kieran Sheedy’s Upon the Mercy of Government (1988), by Joseph Rattigan, 88