The eleventh annual conference of the American Committee for Irish Studies was hosted by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 3-5 May 1973, with Professor Leo F. McNamara supervising local arrangements. Assisting Professor McNamara were conference committee members Mary Bromage, Richard Kennedy, Frances McSparran, Francis O'Brien and James O'Neill. The quality of the previous conferences was sustained as well-conceived sessions provided for a programme that was both imaginative and substantive. An impressive library exhibit of the University of Michigan holdings of Irish interest numbered among the several conference attractions. Once again, well over a hundred active members from throughout the United States, Canada and Ireland, together with invited guests, were in attendance. Dermot Foley, Head of the Library Council of Ireland, treated the assemblage to one of the finest banquet discourses in memory. At the annual business meeting held on 4 May, the organization's membership approved an executive committee recommendation to raise the annual dues from four to six dollars. The motion also contained a provision admitting to regular membership, for a fee of three dollars, graduate students whose status is attested to by a supervising faculty member. Rising costs were cited as the reason for the rise in dues. It was further announced that Professor James I,iddy, of the Division of Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, will organize an ACIS seminar on contemporary Irish writing at the December 1973 Modern Language Association meeting; and that the annual ACIS joint session with the American Historical Association will be postponed to 1974 because of the new AHA ruling limiting affiliate organizations to alternate year participation. Finally, the revised by-laws of the ACIS were ratified unanimously by the members in attendance. The conference closed with a distinctly novel session, chaired by Maurice Harmon, in which Professors Gareth and Janet Dunleavy, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, gave a presentation on the O'Conor papers, one of Ireland's richest manuscript collections, followed by a colour slide presentation of the Jeanne R. Foster-William M. Murphy Collection of Irish and Anglo-Irish Miscellanea by Professor