Science and Sustainability Paradoxes of Irish Scientific Culture
BRIAN TRENCH 1
Knowledge as Power, Knowledge as Capital: A Political Economy Critique of Modern ‘Academic Capitalism’
JOHN BARRY 14
Sustainable Development in Ireland –Blowing in the Wind?
HILARY TOVEY 26
Anticipatory Governance: can We Imagine a Future scientific Ireland?
PÁDRAIG MURPHY 37
Nanotechnology and the Precautionary Principle
DÓNAL P. Ó MATHÚNA 49
A Taste of Things to Come? GM Crops, Climate Change and Intellectual Property Rights
FIACHRA Ó BROLCHÁIN 60
Seamus Heaney
Towards a Theology of Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s Icons and Sacraments
GAIL MCCONNELL 70
Beauty,Atrocity and Sympathy
RICHARD CONYNGHAM 86
Poems
Two Poems
JUSTIN QUINN 99
Reviews
SARAH-ANNE BUCKLEY
Moira Maguire, Precarious Childhood in Post-independence Ireland 101
GEORGE O’BRIEN
Éibhear Walshe, Cissie’s Abattoir
Dónal Óg Cusack, Come What May: The Autobiography
Aodhan Madden, Fear and Loathing in Dublin 103
MARGARET MILLS HARPER
Patricia Coughlan and Tina O’Toole (eds), Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives
Heidi Hansson (ed.), New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century Irish Women’s Prose 112
BRIGITTE LE JUEZ
Emilie Morin, Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness 115
LIZ STEINER-SCOTT
Gillian McIntosh and Diane Urquhart (eds), Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century 118
NEAL ALEXANDER
Peter Manon, Violence, Politics and Textual Interventions in Northern Ireland 120
BARRA Ó SÉAGHDHA
Helen O’Shea, The Making of Irish Traditional Music 122
MARK MORGAN
John Walsh, The Politics of Expansion: The Transformation of Education Policy in the Republic of Ireland, 1957–1972
John Coolahan (with Patrick F. O’Donovan), A History of Ireland’s School Inspectorate, 1831–2008 125
PATRICK LONERGAN
Paul Murphy, Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899–1949 129
JOEP LEERSSEN
James S. Donnelly, Jr., Captain Rock: The Agrarian Rebellion of 1821–1949
Thomas Moore, Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chieftain, edited by Emer Nolan with annotations by Seamus Deane 132
JUSTIN QUINN
Alan Gillis, Here Comes the Night 137
MIRIAM GAMBLE
Jefferson Holdridge, The Poetry of Paul Muldoon 139
Notes on Contributors 143
