The Irish Review Issue 2

(Softback - 1987)

Kevin Barry, Tom Dunne and Edna Longley

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Atavism and Innovation: reflections on culture and nationality in Ireland 1
by Eamon O'Flaherty

Lullabies for Insomniacs: the writer and contemporary Irish society 7
by Kevin Barry

Post-war Society: the ambience of a college 14
by John A. Murphy

Between Tradition and Modernity: cultural values and the problems of Irish society 20
by Frank Barry

The Chosen Few: biblical texts in the symbolism of an Ulster secret society 31
by Anthony D. Buckley

'Ní fheadfadh sí é a inseacht don tsagart...' 41
by Louis de Paor

The Suburban Shamrock: the embourgeoisement of Irish culture 49
by Richard Pine

Romanticism in Ruins: developments in recent Irish cinema 59
by Luke Gibbons

Ireland's MacNeice: a caveat 64
by Peter McDonald

The Rape of Europa 70
by Paul Durcan

Four Poems 72
by Medbh McGuckian

The Apollinaire Blues 79
by Michael Foley

The Solitude of the Party: extract from a novel in progress 82
by Thomas McCarthy

Two Poems 88
by Thomas McCarthy

Book Reviews
FINTAN O'TOOLE
Tom Murphy: Bailegangaire 90

DAVID McCORMACK
John Banville: Mefisto 95

JENNIFER FITZGERALD
Elaine Showalter (ed): The New Feminist Criticis
Moira Monteith (ed): Feminist Writing: A Challenge to Theory
Mary Eagleton (ed): Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader
Maggie Humm: Feminist Criticis
Toril. Moi: Sexual/Textual politics 100

JOHN WILSON FOSTER
Denis Donoghue: We Irish 107

TOM HADDEN
Eanna Mulloy: Dynasties of Coercion
Michael Farrell: The Apparatus of Repression
Patrick J. McGrory: Law and the Constitution: Present Discontents 113

AILBHE SMYTH
Jenny Beale: Women in Ireland
Leah Levenson and Jerry H. Natterstad: Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington: Irish Feminist 116

PAUL BEW
Ed. Moloney and Andy Pollak: Paisley
Steve Bruce: God Save Ulster! 119

BERNARD O'DONOGHUE
Paul Muldoon: Selected Poems 1968-1983 121

PETER McDONALD
Sebastian Barry (ed): The Inherited Boundaries 125

MARTIN MOONEY
Roy McFadden: Letters to the Hinterland
Padraic Fiacc: Missa Terribilis
James Simmons: Poems 1956-1986 129

SEAN LYSAGHT
Neil Corcoran: Seamus Heaney 134

TADHG FOLEY
W.J. McCormack: The Battle of the Books 138

BRENDAN BRADSHAW
Ciaran Brady and Raymond Gillespie (eds): Natives and Newcomers 140

RONAN SHEEHAN
Bob Geldof: Is that it?
Noel Browne: Against the Tide 142

MICHAEL VINEY
Tim Robinson: Stones of Aran
Frank Mitchell: Shell Guide to Reading the Irish Landscape 146

JOHN CRONIN
David Marcus: A land Not Theirs
Michael P. Harding: Priest 147

EDNA LONGLEY
Grap
Honest Ulsterman
Krino
Linen Hall Review
North
Riverine
The Salmon
Threshold
Tracks 149
Notes on Contributors 153

 

Softback: 1987
Printed Pages: 160
Size: 250 x 170mm
ISBN: 9781859180624

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