The Politics of Denial and of Cultural Defence: the referenda of 1983 and 1986 in context
Tom Garvi

Neglecting the Material Dimension: Irish intellectuals and the problem of identity
Liam O'Dow

The Situation of Irish Government 1
T.J. Barringto

On Irish Expressionist Painting 2
Brian Maguire, Patrick Hall, Timothy Hawkesworth, Patrick Graham, Seamus Heane

Continuing the Link: an aspect of contemporary Irish poetry 4
Gearóid Denvi

Race and Intelligence 5
John Macnamar

Le Brocquy and Post-Modernism 6
Richard Kearne

'A Native Mode': language and regionalism in the poetry of John Hewitt 6
Martin Moone

A Future for Irish Studies 7
John Wilson Foster

The Sun Also Rises 8
T.H. O'Donnel

Two Poems 9
Ian Duhi

Noah's Irish Ark 9
Sean Lysagh

From L'Effraie 9
Philippe Jacotte
Translated by Derek Mahon 9

Vanishings 9
Seamus Dean

Book Review

MICHAEL ALLEN
Seamus Heaney: The Haw Lantern 10

FERGUS O'FERRAL
W. Nolan, T.G. McGrath (eds): Tipperary History & Societ
P. O'Sullivan, W. Nolan, K. Whelan (eds): Newcastle Lyon
M. Silverman, P.H. Gulliver: In the Valley of the Nor
G. Moran: The Mayo Evictions of 186
R.G. Gillespie, G. Moran (eds): 'A Various Country': Essay in Mayo History 11

D.E.S. MAXWEL
Masaru Sekine(ed): Irish Writers and the Theatre 12

MARY ROBINSON
Clare O'Halloran: Partition and the Limits of Irish Nationalism 12

TOM CLYDE
Sam Hanna Bell: Across the Narrow Se
John Morrow: Sects and Other Stories 12

CIARAN BRAD
Art Cosgrove (ed): A New History of Ireland: ii, Medieval Ireland 13

ANGELA WILCOX
Anne Devlin. Ourselves Alone with A Woman Calling and The Long Marc
Anne Devlin. The Way Paver 13

B. CUNNINGHAM
Katharine Simms: From kings to warlords 13

MARION TREAC
Pat Murphy and Nell McCafferty: Women in Focu
Evelyn Conlon: My Head is Openin
Leland Bardwell: Different Kinds of Love 13

PAURIC TRAVER
Paul Bew: Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland 1890--191
Andrew Gailey: Ireland and the Death of Kindness 13

BASIL CHUB
Paul Arthur & Michael Laver (eds): Irish Political Studies 14

DOUGLAS CARSON
Frank Ormsby (ed): Northern Window
Robert Harbinson: No Surrender
Michael J. Murphy: Mountain Year
Ronnie Munch & Bill Rolston, with Gerry Moore: Belfast in the Thirties 14

WILLIAM SCAMMEL
Paul Muldoon: Meeting the British 14

Notes on Contributors 14