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The Arts - Undermining AssumptionsI. Caterer and Comforter? The Composer in Modern Ireland 1Raymond DeaneII. The Quality of Laughter 4Robin GlendinningIII. Flourishing and Foul: Ideology, Six Poets and the Irish Building Industry 6J.C.C. MaysTwo Poems from Magazine 12Trevor JoyceApples, Arts, Amnesiacs and Emigrants: the University Connection 14Patricia PalmerTwo Poems 19Louise HermanaSham Bards, Sham Nation, Sham Politics: Scotland, Nationalism and Socialism 21Cairns CraigScottish Culture and the Lost Past 34George WatsonTwo Poems 46Emma DonoghueThe Twisting Rope - Local Studies in Ulster 47Brian S. TurnerHenri Michaux: translated by Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 52Ulster Regionalism: the Unpleasant Facts 54Barra O SeaghdhaUnionist History (ii) 62Alvin JacksonScience in a Post-Colonial Culture 70Roy JohnstonCiaran Carson 77Interviewed by Rand BrandesMontezuma's Revenge 91Ciaran CarsonBook ReviewsBERNARD CRICKArthur Aughey: Under Siege: Ulster Unionism and the Anglo-Irish AgreementTom Hadden and Kevin Boyle: The Anglo-Irish AgreementPaul Teague (ed.): Beyond the RhetoricTom Wilson: Ulster: Conflict and Consent 93MADELEINE BRAINERDEavan Boland: A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National TraditionClodagh Corcoran: Pornography: The New TerrorismHelena Sheehan: Has the Red Flag Fallen?Ethna Viney: Ancient Wars: Sexuality and Oppression 98GEORGE O'BRIENDick, Kiberd, McMillan, Ronsley (eds): Omnium Gatherum: Essays for Richard EllmannAllen and Wilcox (eds): Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature 101PATRICK CROTTYMaurice Harmon: Austin Clarke: A Critical IntroductionBrowne and Grene (eds): Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish PoetryJohn Montague: The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays 106MARIANNE MAYSLeland Bardwell: There We Have BeenEvelyn Conlon: Stays in the DaytimeRonit Lentin: Night Train to Mother 110SEAN LYSAGHTClive D. Hutchinson: Birds in Ireland 113GERARD J. LYNE Oliver MacDonagh: The Emancipist: Daniel O'Connell 1830-47 114CHARLES TOWNSHENDJ.J. Lee: Ireland 1912-1985 116JAMES KELLYMarianne Elliott: Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence 118COLM TÓIBÍNCiaran Carson: Belfast Confetti 121ALVIN JACKSON B. M. Walker: Ulster Politics: The Formative Years 1868-86 124EDNA LONGLEYAilbhe Smyth (ed.): Wildish thingEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Magdalene SermonClairr O'Connor: When You Need ThemDermot Bolger: Leinster Street GhostSebastian Barry: Fanny Hawke goes to the Mainland ForeverPeter McDonald: Biting the WaxAnthony Glavin: The Wrong Side of the Alps 126KEVIN WHELANGillespie and O'Sullivan (eds): The Borderlands: Essays on the History of the Ulster-Leinster Border 129TERENCE BROWNAnthony Cronin: No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien 133Among our Contributors 136