Images
'Spiritual Beyond the Ways of Men' - Images of the Gael
Aodán Mac Póilin 1
The Wild Geese
James H. Murphy 23

Defining Borders

'Liminal Spaces': Post-Colonial Theories and Irish Culture
Colin Graham 29
The Empirical Eye: Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland
John Breen 44
The Outlook Tower: Glossing Lewis Mumford in the Light of John Hewitt
Murdo Macdonald 53
Sectarian Readings of Sectarianism: Interpreting the Northern Ireland Census
James Anderson and Ian Shuttleworth 74

Poetry

Surfacing: An Interview with Medbh McGuckian, Belfast, 5th September, 1994
Kimberly S. Bohman 95
Poem
Medbh McGuckian 108
Dana Gioia Interviewed, Killybegs, County Donegal, 3rd May, 1994.
Isabelle Cartwright 109
Right of Reply
Peter Denman 123

Reviews

PETER McDONALD
Ciaran Carson. First Language
Clair Wills: Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry 127

SEAN DUNNE
Michael Longley: Tuppenny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters
Maurice Hayes: Sweet Killough Let Go Your Anchor
Ken Bloomfield: Stormont in Crisis: A Memoir
133

DES O'RAWE
Eavan Boland: In A Time of Violence
Padraic Fiacc: Ruined Pages: Selected Poems edited by Gerald Dawe and Aodán Mac Póilin
Michael Foley: Insomnia in the Afternoon
Tom Paulin: Walking a Line 136

JOHN BREEN
Andrew Hadfield and John McVeagh (eds): Strangers To That Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine
Robert Welch: The Kilcolman Notebook 141

DAVID EDWARDS
Hiram Morgan: Tyrone's Rebellion: The Outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland
Brian Mac Cuarta, SJ (ed.): Ulster 1641: Aspects of the Rising 144

PEGGY O'BRIEN
Bernard McLaverty: Walking the Dog and Other Stories
Eoin MacNamee: Resurrection Man
Deirdre Madden: Nothing is Black 148

Among Our Contributors 153