A POST-CHRISTIAN IRELAND — AN INTRODUCTION
Enda Mcdonagh 1
Three Poems
Paul Durcan 7
A Social Sculpture
Chris Doris 13
Dancing at Lughnasa
Declan Kiberd 18
Science and Post-Christian Ireland
David McConnell 40
Science, Religion and Scientism
Gabriel Daly 48
Politics, Morality and Religion
Pat Rabitte 55
Politics, North and South: A Secular Trade?
Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray 60
Education in Post-Christian Ireland
Áine Hyland 66
Economics and Christian Values&
John Fitzgerald 77
At the Round Table
RTÉ Discussion Chaired by Olivia O'Leary 86
In Search of Conclusions
Enda McDonagh 108
THE REVIONISM DEBATE
Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History
Hugh Kearney 113
Irish Revisionism and Continental Theory: An Intellectual Kinship
Evi Gkotzaridis 121
T.V. AND POLITICS
The Trials of 'Death in the Rock'
Jayne Steele 140
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I Haven't Been that Far, but I've Been to Norwood
Charles Fanning 156
REVIEW ARTICLE
Napolen in a Dress. Robert O'Byrne: Hugh Lane
Adrian Frazier 168
REVIEWS
DES O'RAWE
Seamus Heaney: Beowulf: A New Translation
Paul Muldoon
The Birds: After Aristophanes 180
KEIN BARRY
Marina Carr: On Raftery's Hill 183
DEANA RANKIN
Christopher J. Wheatley: Beneath Ierne's Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 187
PÍDRAIGÍN RIGGS
Micheál Ó Conghaile: Sna Fir 189
STIOFÍN Ó CADHLA
Laios da Paor (ed.): Freacnair Mhearcair/ The Oomph of Quicksilver: Selected Poems of Michael Davitt 193
JOHN A. MURPHY
Stewart J. Brown and David W. Miller (eds): Piety and Power in Ireland 1760-1960: Essays in Honour of Emmet Larkin
Michael Glazier (ed.): The Encyclopaedia of the Irish in America
GUY BEINER
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin: Locating Irish Folklore
Richard White: Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past 200
NOELLE MCCARTHY
Bruce Stewart (ed.): That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contents 204
TOM DUNNE
Bernadette Cunningham: The World of Geoffrey Keating
Meidbhín Ní Úrdail: The Scribe in Eighteenth the and Nineteenth Century Ireland: Motivation and Milieu 207
Notes on Contributors 212