Michael Cronin, Colin Graham, Clare O'Halloran

CONTENTS
Ideas in Collision

To Stand with Dreamers: On the Use Value of Utopia
Tom Moylan
The European Project: Dismantling the Social Model, Globalising Neoliberalism
Andy Storey
From Self-Denial to Self-Indulgence: The Clash of Cultures in Contemporary Ireland
Tom Inglis

Performing Rites
'Out of all Frame and Good Fashion': Sartorial Resistance as Political Spectacle
Margaret Jaster
Boyz to Menz (own): Irish Boy Bands and the Alternative Nation
Moynagh Sullivan
Gable-Ends and Che Guevara: Political Murals and Postcolonial Ethics
Michael Cronin, Colin Graham and Clare O'Halloran

A Postcolonial Fiction: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Camus
John Foley

Orwell's Ireland
Kevin Kerrane

'The Independent Expression of Public Opinion': The Paris Correspondence of Francis Sylvester Mahony
Fergus Dunne

Ireland in England: Painting History?
Fintan Cullen

Spectral Ethnicity: Writing Race in Victorian Ireland
Conor Carville

Mobility, Marginality and Modernity in the New Age Traveller Imaginary
Carmen Kuhling

The European Project: Neither Neo-liberal, Nor Socialist – A Reply to Andy Storey
Laurent Pech

Innovation and Rural Knowledge Communities: Learning from the Irish Revival
Finbarr Bradley

The 'sacred weather' of County Leitrim: John McGahern's Memoir
Brian Sampson

Review Articles

Public Intellectuals: John A. Conor and the Lads in the Back
Donald Harman Akenson

Short Stories and Tall Tales: Oral Narratives and Their Place in the World
Liam Carson

Writing Literary History: Raising Interesting Questions
Joep Leerssen

Book Reviews

William Nolan
William Smyth, Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c.1530-1750

Máiréad Nic Craith
Tony Crawley, War of the Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, 1537-2004

Donal Ó Drisceoil
Kevin Rockett, Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography
Mary Corcoran and Mark O'Brien (eds), Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban

Eimear O'Connor
Claudia Kinmonth, Irish Rural Interiors in Art

Éibhear Walshe
Lucy McDiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy

Julia Whittredge
Alan Gillis, Irish Poetry of the 1930s

Catriona Crowe
Ébhear Walshe, Kate O'Brien: A Writing Life

Marie Coleman
John Borgonovo (ed), Florence and Josephine O'Donoghue's War of Independence: A Destiny That Shapes Our Ends
John Borgonovo, Spies, Informers and the 'Anti-Sinn Féin Society': The Intelligence War in Cork City, 1920-1921

Máirín Nic Eoin
Pádraig Standún, Eaglais na Catacómaí

Michael Cronin
Márí Nic Eoin, Trén bhFearann Breac: An Díláithriú Cultúr agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge

Notes on Contributors