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