Radical Regionalism 1
John Wilson Foster
Micky Donnelly's Hat 16
Paul Durcan
Canvas and Camera Translated: Paul Durcan and the Visual Arts 18
Kathleen McCracken
Mary Farl, Powers Works in Cast Paper 30
Paul Durcan
Rushdie, Kundera and Wolfe 32
Richard Kearney
Two Poems 40
Howard Wright
China Achebe's Writing: an Investment in Speech 42
Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
Baby in the Fire 51
Tom Mac Intyre
Northern Theatre: Whose Renaissance? 52
Jan Ashdown
Oh Play That Thing 57
John McGrail
Unionist History (i) 58
Alvin Jackson
A Glint of Metal 67
Robert Johnstone
Heaney vs Praeger: Contrasting Natures 68
Seán Lysaght
Three Poems 75
Ian Duhig
Rubble-na-Mickies: a Work in Progress 78
Séamas Mac Annaidh
Book Reviews
GRAHAM REID
Stuart Parker: Three Plays for Ireland 86
GEORGE O'BRIEN
John Banville: The Book of Evidence
Aidan Higgins: Ronda Gorge and Other Precipices 89
PETER MacDONALD
Richard Murphy: New Selected Poems and The Mirror Wall
Thomas Kinsella: Blood and Family 92
MICHAEL ALLEN
John Montague: Mount Eagle
Irish University Review: John Montague Issue
T.D. Redshaw (ed): Hill Field: Poems and Memoirs for John Montague 97
TOM CLYDE
Michael P. Harding: The Trouble with Sarah Gullion
Shane Connaughton: A Border Station
Peter McCabe: Carn
Robert MacLiam Wilson: Ripley Bogle 102
SEÍN LYSAGHT
Sarah Berkeley: Home Movie Nights
Matthew Sweeney: Blue Shoes
Robert Johnstone: Eden to Edenderry 105
STEPHEN BOYD
Michael Smith: On the Anvil: Francisco de Quevedo 109
KEVIN BOYLE
Denis Kennedy: The Widening Gulf
Michael Farrell (ed): Twenty Years On 111
IVAN HERBISON
Rory Fitzpatrick: God's Frontiersmen 114
GED MARTIN
Bruce S. Elliott: Irish Migrants in the Canadas
C.J. Byrne & M. Harry: Talamh an Éisc: Canadian and Irish Essays 117
EOIN DEVEREUX
C. Curtin & T.M. Wilson (eds): Ireland from Below 119
CLIONA MURPHY
K.T. Hoppen: Ireland Since 1800
Pauric Travers: Settlements and Division 120
JOHN A. MURPHY
T. Bartlett, et al. Irish Studies 123
EAMON O'FLAHERTY
G. O'Brien and T. Dunne (eds): Catholic Ireland in the 18th Century 124
D. OTTEN Dermot Moran: The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena 126
FERGUS O'FERRALL
P.J. O'Connor: Exploring Limerick's Past Tipperary Historical Journal, 1988
Journal of the Wexford Historical Society, 1988 128
MICHELLE O'RIORDAN
E. M. Crawford: Famine: the Irish Experience
C. Brady: Worsted in the Game 129
THOMAS BARTLETT
S. H. Palmer: Police and Protest in England and Ireland 132
CAITRIONA CLEAR
Cliona Murphy: The Woman's Suffrage Movement 134
TOM DUNNE
Alvin Jackson: The Ulster Party 136
MAURA CRONIN
J.W. Boyle: The Irish Labour Movement 138
KEVIN WHELAN
E. Ó Néill: Gleannan Oir 139
CLARE O'HALLORAN
G. O'Brien (ed): Parliament, Politics and People 143
JOHN COOLAHAN
Séamus Ó Buachalla: Educational Policy in Twentieth Century Ireland 145
FRED POWELL
John Ditch: Social Policy in Northern Ireland 146
Among our Contributors 149