Theatre Business
An Extract from By the Bog of Cats
MARINA CARR 1
Drama Publishing
PEGGY BUTCHER 9
An Extract from The Wild Duck
FRANK McGUINNESS 16
Lost Futures: Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo
ROY FOSTER 23
Cartographic Connections: Problems of Representation in Calypso Theatre Company's The Business of Blood
VIC MERRIMAN 28
1798: Commemoration / Historiography
1798: The Recurrence of Violence and Two Conceptualizations of History
JOEP LEERSSEN 37
1798 in 1898:The Politics of Commemoration
SENIA PASETA 46
1798 and the United Irishmen
TOM DUNNE 54
Cinema
Braveheart: Raising the Stakes of History
WILLY MALEY 67
Oidhreacht / Heritage
Ír nOidhreacht agus ár nArán Laethúil
NEIL BUTTIMER 81
Poetry
Three Poems
MARKO VESOVIC translated from the Bosnian by CHRIS AGEE 89
Six Sonnets
CIARAN CARSON 94
Two Poems
JUSTIN QUINN 98
Two Poems
VONA GROARKE 101
Reviews
DAVID WHEATLE
Michael Allen (ed): New Casebooks: Seamus Heaney
Peter McDonald: Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland 103
RICHARD KIRKLAND James H. Murphy: Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland 1873-1922
Gerry Smyth: The Novel and the Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction 108
LEON McAULEY
Ciaran Carson: The Star Factory 112
ALEX DAVIS
Trevor Joyce: Syzygy 114
KLAUS GUNNAR SCHNEIDER
Eibhear Walshe: Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing 116
GEORGE T. DEMPSEY
Joseph Morrison Skelly: Irish Diplomacy at the United Nations 1945-1965 123
PATRICK MAUME
J. Anthony Gaughan (ed.): Memoirs of Senator Joseph Connolly, A Founder of Modern Ireland 128
CARMEL FARRELLY
Margaret Ward: Hannah Sheehy Skeffington: A Life
Anthony Bradley and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis (eds): Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland
Maryann Gialanella Valiulis and Mary O'Dowd (eds): Women & Irish History: Essays in Honour of Margaret McCurtain 131
RICHARD ENGLISH
Thomas Hennessey: A History of Northern Ireland 1920-1996
Feargal Cochrane: Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Henry Patterson: The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA
John Darby: Scorpions in a Bottle: Conflicting Cultures in Northern Ireland 135
MAURA CRONIN
Fintan Lane: The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism 1881-1896 139
MICHAEL LAFFAN
Frank Callanan, T.M. Healy 142
Notes on Contributors 144
