The Crane Bag Book of Studies, 2 vols. (1982-85)

ART AND POLITICS, VOL. 1 No. 1 (1977)
CONTENTS: Richard Kearney [‘Beyond Art and Politics’, 13]; Robin Walker [‘A Sense of Place’, 22]; Cyril Farrell [‘A Sense of Image’, 34]; Bruce Merry [‘A Sense of Humour’, 42]; Peter Mew [‘A Marxist View of Art and Politics’, 50]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘The Playboy versus the Western World’, 59]; Seamus Deane [‘Interview with Seamus Heaney, 66]; Peter Sheridan [‘The Theatre and Politics’, 73]; Francis Stuart [‘Literature and Politics’, 77]; Richard Kearney [‘Interview with Herbert Marcuse’, 81]; Benedict Tutty [‘Endpiece’, 90].

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A SENSE OF NATION, VOL. I No. 2 (1977)
CONTENTS: Editorial [91]; Conor Cruise O’Brien [‘Nationalism and the Reconquest of Ireland’, 95]; Deirdre Bair [‘"No-man’s-land, Hellespont or Vacuum": Samuel Beckett’s Irishness’, 101]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘Interview with Seamus Twomey’, 107]; Monk Gibbon [‘Am I Irish?’, 113]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘‘Far-off, most secret and inviolate Rose.’’, 115]; Liam de Paor [‘Colour Schemes’, 120]; John MacNamara [‘The Irish Language and Nationalism’, 124]; Garrett Barden [‘Centre’, 129]; Dorothy Walker [‘Indigenous Culture and Irish Art’, 131]; John Hill [‘An Archtype of the Irish Soul, I’, 136]; Seamus Deane [‘Yeats’s Ireland and Revolution’, 139]; Sean Lucy [‘A Stronger, Sadder Voice’, 148]; Louis le Brocquy [‘A Painter’s Notes on Ambivalence’, 151].

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MYTHOLOGY, VOL. 2, Nos. 1 & 2 (1978)
CONTENTS: Louis le Brocquy [‘Study Towards an Image of James Joyce’, 154]; Editorial [‘155]; Study Louis le Brocquy [‘Towards an Image of James Joyce’, 158]; John Montague [‘Jawseyes’, 159]; Vivian Mercier [‘James Joyce as Medieval Artist’, 161]; Joseph S. O’Leary [‘Joyce and the Myth of the Fall’, 168]; Bernard Benstock [‘A Setdown Secular Phoenish: The Finn of Finnegans Wake’, 172]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘‘The Dead’ Revisited’, 178]; John Jordan [‘Amor Fati Sive Contemptus Mundi?’, 187]; Bruce Stewart [‘Adamology’, 193]; Proinsias MacCana [‘Notes on the Early Irish Concept of Unity’, 205]; Tomas O’Cathasaigh [‘Between God and Man: The Hero of Irish Tradition’, 220]; Clemence Ramnoux [‘The Finn Cycle: The Symbols of a Celtic Legend’, 228]; Brendan Purcell [‘Newgrange: Between Sun and Stone’, 237]; Dermot Moran [‘Wandering from the Path: Navigatio in the Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena’, 244]; Archbishop Simms [‘Between the Lines in the Book of Kells’, 251]; John Hill [‘Archtype of the Irish Soul II’, 253]; Richard Kearney [‘Interview with Paul Ricoeur’, 260]; Barré Fitzpatrick [‘Interview with Noam Chomsky’, 267]; Richard Kearney [‘Myth and Terror’, 273]; Garrett Barden [‘Image’, 288]; Peter Crisp [‘The Existentialist and the Tramp’, 290]; Ronan Sheehan [‘Interview with Sean McBride’, 296]; John A. Murphy [‘Further Reflections on Irish Nationalism’, 304]; Augustine Martin [‘What Stalked through the Post Office?’, 312]; Mairtín Ó Murchu [‘Whorf and Irish Language Politics’, 326]; Language and Nationalism’, David Greene [‘331]; Louis le Brocquy [‘Study Towards an Image of James Joyce’, 336].

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IDEA OF TRADITION, VOL. 3 No. 1 (1979)
[Special Editor: Seamus Deane] CONTENTS: Charles Harper [‘Excitizens I’, 338]; Seamus Deane [‘Editorial’, 339]; Declan Kiberd [‘Writers in Quarantine? The Case of Irish Studies’, 341]; Liam de Paor [‘Ireland’s Identities’, 354]; W. J. McCormack [‘Yeats and a New Tradition’, 362]; Seamus Deane [‘An Example of Tradition’, 373]; Carl Aidan Matthews [‘Modern Irish Poetry: A Question of Covenants’, 380]; Richard Kearney [‘A Crisis of Imagination’, 390]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘A Hidden Tradition’, 403]; Ronan Sheehan [‘Novelists on the Novel: Interview with John Banville & Francis Stuart’, 408]; Joseph Stephen O’Leary [‘The Riddle of Sacrifice’, 417]; Denis O’Driscoll [‘Remembering the Past’, 420]; Charles Harper [‘Excitizens II’, 424].

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ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE: PERSPECTIVES, VOL. 3 No. 2 (1979)
[Special Editor: Seamus Deane] CONTENTS: Robert Ballagh [‘Room’, 426]; Sean Golden [‘Post-Traditional English Literature’, 427]; Thomas Kilroy [‘Anglo-Irish Playwrights and Comic Tradition’, 439]; John Dillon [‘Reflections on the Irish Classical Tradition’, 448]; W. J. McCormack [‘Yeats’ Purgatory: A Play and a Tradition’, 453]; Timothy Kearney [‘The Poetry of the North: A Post-Modernist Perspective’, 465]; Edna Longley [‘Stars and Horses, Pigs and Trees’, 474]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘Seamus Heaney: The Reluctant Poet’, 481]; Richard Kearney [‘Those Masterful Images’, 491]; Robert Tracy [‘An Ireland the Poets have Imagined’, 502]; Gerald Dawe [‘A Question of Covenants: Modern Irish Poetry’, 508]; Seamus Deane [‘Postcript’, 512].

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IMAGES OF THE IRISH WOMAN, VOL. 4 No. 1 (1980)
[Special Editor: Christine Nulty] CONTENTS: Christine Nulty [‘Editorial’, 517]; Anne Madden [‘Sheela-na-gig’, 519]; Proinsias Mac Cana [‘Women in Irish Mythology’, 520]; Muireann Nf Bhrolcháin [‘Women in Early Irish Myths and Sagas’, 525]; Noreen O’Connor [‘Beyond the Philosophy of Male & Female’, 533]; Margaret MacCurtain [‘The Religious Image of Women’, 539]; Anne Bernard [‘Creativity and Procreativity’, 544]; Dorothy Cross [‘Lines of Ladies’, 555]; Betty Purcell [‘10 Years of Progress? Some Statistics’, 556]; Eileen Breathnach [‘Women & Higher Education in Ireland’, 560]; Mary Hederman [‘Irish Women and Irish Law’, 568]; Betty Purcell [‘Interview with Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese’, 573]; Marie-Thérese McGivern [‘Images of Women in Northern Ireland’, 579]; Roisín Conroy [‘Bibliography’, 586]; Tom Stokes [‘Roisin Dubh’, 594]; Maria Jolas [‘The Joyce I knew & the Women around him’, 595]; Mark Mortimer [‘The World of Jennifer Johnston’, 601]; Patricia Bourden [‘An Aspect of Female Portraiture’, 608]; Eilean Ní Chuilleanain [‘Woman as Writer: The Social Matrix’, 614]; Dorothy Walker [‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman’, 619]; Richard Kearney [‘Interview with Anne Madden’, 625]; Mary Farl Powers [‘Torso 1’, 516, ‘Torso II’, 631].

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NORTHERN ISSUE, VOL. 4 No. 2 (1980)
[Special Editor: Barre Fitzpatrick] CONTENTS: Henry Morgan [‘Frontispiece’, 632]; Barré Fitzpatrick [‘Editorial’, 634]; John Behan [‘Victims’, 637]; Michael McKeown [‘A Register of Northern Ireland’s Casualties’, 638]; Percy Allum [‘The Irish Question’, 643]; Barré Fitzpatrick [‘Interview with Andy Tyrie’, 652]; Ed Moloney [‘Paisley’, 660]; David McKittrick [‘The Class Structure of Unionism’, 665]; Michael McDowell [‘Removing the British Guarantee’, 671]; Seamus Deane [‘Interview with John Hume’, 676]; Peter Taylor [‘Britain’s Irish Problem’, 681]; John Bowman [‘Sinn Fein’s Perception of the Ulster Question’, 687]; Roger Faligot [‘Special War in Ireland’, 694]; Richard Kearney [‘The IRA’s Strategy of Failure’, 699]; Eamonn Deane [‘Community work in Northern Ireland’, 708]; Barré Fitzpatrick [‘Interview with Brian Smeaton & Des Wilson’, 716]; Timothy Kearney [‘Interview with John Hewitt & John Montague’, 722]; Deborah Brown [‘Glass Fibre Form’, 730]; Mark Patrick Hederman [‘The Crane Bag and Northern Ireland’, 731].

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MINORITIES IN IRELAND (AND THE CHURCH—STATE DEBATE) VOL.5 No. 1, 1981)
[Special Editor: Timothy Kearney] CONTENTS: Patrick Scott [‘Chinese Ink’, 742]; Timothy Kearney [‘Editorial’, 743]; Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy [‘The Poor in Ireland Today: Our Silent Minority’, 745]; Walter Lorenz [‘The Insane as a Minority: Beyond Confinement?’, 749]; Louis le Brocquy [‘Travelling People’, 755]; Maev-Ann Wren [‘The Travelling People: Racialism in Ireland’, 756]; Terence Brown [‘The Majority’s Minorities: Protestant Denominations in the North’, 761]; Rosita Sweetman [‘The Blanket of Silence’, 765]; David Norris [‘People and the Christian Churches in Ireland - a Minority and its Oppressors’, 770]; Aidan Carl Mathews [‘A God in Ruins Part I, Notes on the Fall of the Artist’, 777]; Declan Kiberd [‘Aosdana: A Comment’, 783]; Michael Farrell [‘A Shorter History of Ireland’, 785]; Conor Cruise O’Brien [‘The Protestant Minority: Within and Without’, 786]; Barré Fitzpatrick [‘The Politics of Pluralism, Interview with Garret Fitzgerald’, 789]; John A. Murphy [‘Religious Majorities and Minorities, North and South, Then and Now’, 794]; Peadar Kirby [‘Minorities in Ireland, Interview with Sean McBride’, 800]; Enda McDonagh [‘Church and State in Ireland: A Theological Analysis’, 806]; Breifne Walker [‘The Catholic Church in Ireland, Adaptation or Liberation?’, 813]; Timothy Kearney [‘The Prophetic Cry, Interview with Jean Vanier’, 818]; Liam Ryan [‘Minorities and the Church: A Response’, 825]; Richard Kearney [‘The Right to be a Minority’, 827].

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LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, VOL. 5 No. 2 (1981)
[Special Editor: Declan Kiberd] CONTENTS: Diana Kingston [‘Man with Paper’, 834]; Declan Kiberd [‘Editorial’, 835]; John Behan [‘Maeve Speaks’, 838]; Desmond Fennell [‘Maeve Speaks’, 839]; Aingeal de Brúch [‘An Ghaeilge agus an Chathair’, 843]; Seamus Ó Buachalla [‘An Ghaeilge agus an Chathair’, 849]; Felim Egan [‘Sound Reference II’, 863]; Risteard Ó Glaisne [‘Irish and the Protestant Tradition’, 869]; Padraig Ó Snodaigh [‘Hidden Ulster Revisited’, 876]; Peter Pearson [‘Saints and Scholars’, 879]; Peter Kuch [‘Manannan MacLir as Monoglot - George Russell and the Irish Language’, 880]; Alan Titley [‘Contemporary Irish Literature’, 890]; Colbert Kearney [‘The Repossession of Poetry’, 897]; Eithne Jordan [‘Middlepiece’, 902]; Micheal O’ Siadhail [‘Standard Irish Orthography - An Assessment’, 903]; Alan Bliss [‘The Standardisation of Irish’, 908]; Micheal Ó Suilleabhain [‘Irish Music Defined’, 915]; Aidan Dunne, Patrick Collins, Michael Cullen [‘A Celtic Art?’, 920]; Patrick Collins [‘The Headland’, 925]; Sean Kelleher [‘The Horse of Art O’Leary’, 926]; Michael Cullen [‘L. A. Scape’, 930].

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JAMES JOYCE and THE ARTS IN IRELAND, Vol. 6 No. 1 (1982)
Contributors: CONTENTS: Benedict Tutty [‘Finnegans Wake’, front.], Gerald Y. Goldberg [‘Ireland is the only country .. Joyce and the Jewish Dimension’, 5], Sheldon R. Brivic [‘Joyce and the Metaphysics of Creation’ 13]; Mark P. Hederman [‘James Joyce, Priest and Poet’, 20]; Louis le Brocquy [‘studies towards an image of James Joyce’, 31]; Richard Kearney [‘‘Joyce and Le Brocquy: Art as Otherness’, 32]; Dorothy Walker [‘traditinal structures in recent Irish Art’, 41]; Kevin Barry [‘Discarded Images: Narrative and the Cinema‘, 45]; Frank Corcoran [‘"I’m a Composer": "You’re a What?"’, 52]; Roger Doyle [‘A Composer’s Story’, 55]; Micheal Ó Suilleabhain [‘The Art of Listening’, 59]; John Byrne [‘Derek Mahon: A Commitment to Change’, 62]; Caroline Mulholland [‘Portrait of Seamus Heaney’, 73]; Douglas Sealy [‘Irish Poertry During the Last Decade’, 74]; Gerald Dawe [‘Checkpoints: The Younger Irish Poets’, 85]; David McKenna [‘The Word and the Flesh: A View of Theatre as Performance’, p.90]; John Turpin [‘Unbeautiful Ireland - History or Apathy?’, 92]; Ciaran Benson [‘The Art Policy and the Policies of Art in Irish Education’, 98]; John Devitt [‘English for the Irhs: Literature and the post-Primary’, 104]; Lucille Redmond [‘Arts Council Policies: A Comparative Study’, 110].

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LATIN-AMERICAN ISSUE, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1982)
[Ed. Ronan Sheehan] CONTENTS: Peadar Kirby [‘A Guatemalan Peasant Woman Tells her Story’, 4]; Dermot Keogh [‘El Salvador 1932: Peasant Revolt and Massacre’, 7]; Colm Regan [‘Latin American Dependency Theory and its Relevance to Ireland’, 15]; Noel Dorr [‘Statement delivered by Permanent Representative of Ireland in the Security Council on the Complaint by Nicaragua’, 21]; Peadar Kirby [‘Interview with Archb. Helder Camara of Recife and Olinda, Brazil’, 24]; Ronan Sheehan [‘Interview with Paddy Dundon’, 28]; Joseph Stephen O’Leary [‘Latin America’s theological Challenge’, 31]; Peadar Kirby [‘The Latin American Chruch: Lessons for Ireland’, 35]; Peadar Kirby [‘Interview with Paulo Freire’, 45]; Sally O’Neill [‘Creating Critical consciousness in Honduras’, 49]; Patrick Quinn [‘Education and the Transformation of Society’, 53]; Mark P. Hederman [‘Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the Oppressed’, 58]; Fernando Cardenal and Valerie Miller [‘Nicaragua: Literacy and Revolution’, 64 Seamus Heaney and Richard Kearney [‘Interview with Jorge Luis Borges’, 71]; Arminta Wallace [‘who is this Averroes Person and Where has he Gone?’, 79]; Robin Fiddian [‘James Joyce and the Spanish American Novel’, 84]; John Lyons [‘Life Scripts: Aspects of the maya in the work of ernesto Cardenal and William S. Burroughs’, 89]; Ciaran Cosgrove [‘Otavio Paz: Poet of the Stratosphere’, 97]; Teresa Thornhill [‘The Earlier Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru 1936- )’, 102]; Clare McNamara [‘A Note on Cesar Vellego (Peru 1892, Paris 1938)’, 106]; S. Meckled [‘The Theme of the Double: An Essential Element Throughout the Works of Garcia Marquez Works’, 108]; Manuel Riquelme, trans. Catherine Molloy and Eanna O Broinn [‘Chile: The Culture of Resistance’, 118]; Slavka Sverakova [‘Attitudes tro the Visual Arts in Northern Ireland’, 122]; Richard Kearney [‘Interview with James Coleman’, 126]; Dermot Moran [‘Teaching literature in Ireland Today’, 133-144].

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SOCIALISM AND CULTURE Vol. 7, No. 1 (1983)
[Ed. Richard Kearney] CONTENTS: ‘Editorial’ [3]; Part 1, EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVIET LITERATURE: Denis O’Driscoll [‘The Writer in an East European Context, (Havel, Holub, Herbert)’, 4]; Denis Tate [‘Rediscovering Marx: The Coming of Age of East German Literature’, 13]; Neil Cornwell [‘Through the Clouds of Soviet Literature’, 17]; W.J. McCormack [‘Poetry and Modern Hungary’, 34]; Richard Kearney [‘Andrei Voznesensky: The Poet as Tightrope Walker’, 41]; Michael Hamburger [‘Notes on Marin Sorescu (Romania) and Peter Huchel (East Germany)’, 49]; Dennis O’Driscoll, [‘Czeslaw Milosz: The Optimistic Catastrophist’, 58]; Hugh Maxton [‘Josef Brodsky and "The Great Elegy for John Donne": A Note’, 62]; Mark P. Hederman [‘The God of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn’, 65]; Brendan Purcell [‘The Enchanted Sword: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Struggle for Personal, Social and Historical Anamnesis’, 74]. Part 2, THE CRITICAL DEBATE: Redmond O’Hanlon [‘Sartre on Literature and Politics: A Conversation with Redmond O’Hanlon’, 82]; Peter Fuller [‘The Aesthetic Dimension Reconsidered’, 85]; Robert Ballagh [‘Fuller Reconsidered: Socialism and the Aesthetic Dimension’, 89]; Yuri Surovtsev [‘A Note on the Soviet Writers’ Union’, 93]; Victor Dmitriev [‘Socialist Realism Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, 96]; Jennifer Todd [‘Aesthetic Experience and Contemporary Capitalism: Notes on Georg Lukacs and Walter Benjamin’, 101]; Michael Kelly [‘Gorky, Aragon and Socialist Realism’, 108]; Barry McAuley [‘The Theory of Criminal Man: A Reply to Foucault’, 112]; Paul Ricoeur [‘Jan Patocka: A Philosopher of Resistance’, 116]; Zdena Tomin [‘Human Rights and Socialism’, 119]; Aidan C. Mathews [‘Writers and Wrongs: W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur and Aidan C. Mathews in Conversation’, 122]. Part 3, THE IRISH CONNECTION: Robert Lowery [‘The Socialist Legacy of Sean O’Casey’, 128]; Nicholas Grene [‘Bernard Shaw: Socialist and Playwright’, 135]; Peter van de Kamp and Patrick Leahy [‘Some Notes on Wilde’s Socialism’, 141]; Colin McCabe [‘Joyce and Benjamin’, 151]; Redmond O’Hanlon [‘John Arden: Theatre and Commitment’, 155]; Michael Lewis [‘The Marxist Centenary’, 162]; Michael O’Riordan [‘Marx - The Irish Connection’, 164]; Laurence Cassidy [‘Eastern Europe and a Cultural Policy for Ireland: A Comment’, 167]; A Crane Bag Visit to the U.S.S.R., Richard Kearney [‘A Crane Bag Visit to the U.S.S.R.’, 170]; Seamus Deane [‘Russian History Lesson’, text and poem, 176-192].Also, pls. by Vivienne Bogan and Robert Ballagh.

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THE FORUM ISSUE: Education, Religion, Arts, Psychology. Vol. 7, No. 2, 1983)
CONTENTS: Editorial [3]; EDUCATION: Joseph Lee [‘University, State and Society in Ireland,1983’, 5]; Patrick Lynch [‘Political Economy, The University and Modern Ireland’, 13]; Denis Donoghue [‘Ideas and how to escape from them’, 21]; Colm Ó hEocha [‘European Science and Technology: Technology and the Academics’, 29]; Patrick Masterson [‘The Arts Degree in an Age of Science and Technology’, 33]; Padraig Hogan [‘An Overview of the Educational Ethos’, 41]; Eileen O’Riordan [‘Thoughts on Primary Education in Ireland’, 51]; Roy Johnston [‘Science and Technology in Irish National Culture’, 58]; Ciaran Forbes [‘The Crane Bag’ pict. ]. RELIGION: Margaret O’Callaghan [‘Religion and Identity: The Church and Irish Independence’, 65]; Dermot Moran [‘Nationalism, Religion and the Education Question’, 77]; Patrick Pye [‘Religious Art: The Exile and The Mainstream’, 85]; James McEvoy [‘Catholic Hopes and Protestant Fears’, 90]; John Jordan [‘Irish Catholicism’, 106];. ARTS: Brian Friel, John Andrews and Kevin Barry [‘Translations and A Paper Landscape: Between Fiction and History’, 118]; Richard Pine [‘Cultural Democracy, Cultural Policy and Cultural Identity: A Web of Woven Guesses’, 125]; Siobhan McSweeney [‘The Poets’ Picture of Education’, 134]; Gerald Dawe [‘Brief Confrontations: Convention as Conservatism in Modern Irish Poetry’, 143]; Luke Gibbons [‘Lies that Tell the Truth: Maeve, History and Irish Cinema’, 149]; Martyn Turner [‘Confessions of a Political Cartoonist’, 156]; Richard Kearney [‘Between Politics and Literature: The Irish Cultural Journal’, 160]. PSYCHOLOGY: Clodagh O’Reilly [‘Psychiatry and Irish Culture: Interview with Anthony Clare’, 172]; Barry Fitzgerald [‘Freud and Ireland’, 177]; Ross Skelton [‘Jonathan Hanaghan: The Founder of Psychoanalysis in Ireland’, 183]. Desmond Fennell [‘Choosing our self-image (The problem of Irish Identity)’, 191]; Peter Corrigan [‘The Sally O’Brien Phenomenon: What Price a Pint of Lager?’, 197]; Bill Felton [‘In Defence of Sally O’Brien’, 202]; Barry Devlin [‘How many Children had Sally O’Brien?’, 204]; Mark P. Hederman [‘The Four of the Crossroads plus the swinging of the door’, 205-224]. Artists, Vivienne Bogan, Anne Madden [‘Doorway with "Flagellata"’, 117], Patricia Lauglais.

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IRELAND: DEPENDANCE AND INDEPENDANCE [RTE/UCD Lectures], Vol. 8, No. 1 (1984)
CONTENTS: Dorothy Cross [‘Standing Stone’, front.; and ‘Motherland’ end]; Breandan O Buachalla [‘Preface’, 7]; Declan Kiberd [‘Inventing Irelands’, 11]; Michael Laffan [‘Two Irish States’, 26]; Ronan Fanning [‘The British Dimension’, 41]; Richard Kearney [‘Faith and Fatherland’, 55]; Peter Neary [‘The Failure of Economic Nationalism’, 68]; Seamus Deane [‘Remembering the Future’, 81-96]. Artists, Louis le Brocquy and Michael Mulcahy [six heads].

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MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1984)
CONTENTS: Benedict Tutty [‘Singing Head’, ]; Richard Kearney [‘’, ]; THE PRESS: John Horgan [‘The Press: Credibility and Accountability’, 9]; Responsibility and The Press: I) Richard Kearney and Dermot Moran [I: Interview with Douglas Gageby, 13]; Dermot Moran [II: Interview with Tim-Pat Coogan, 24] Dermot Moran [III: Interview with Vincent Browne, 31]; Risteard Ó Glaisne [‘De Valera and the Press: A Case Study in the History of Politics’, 34]; R.B. McDowell [‘Irish Newspapers in the 18th Century’ ([rev. Merriman School lect. 1983.], 40]; Ronan Sheehan [The Press and the People in Dublin Central: interview with Tony Gregory, Mick Rafferty and Fergus McCabe’, 44]; John Horgan [‘State Policy and the Press’, 51]. THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA (TV, RADIO, CINEMA, MUSIC): Peter Feeney [‘Censorship and RTE’, 61]; Colm Toibin [‘Gay Byrne: Irish Life as Cabaret’, 65]; Julian Vignoles [‘What is Irish Popular Music? Julian Vignoles’, 70]; Barbara Bradby and Brian Torode [‘To Whom do U2 Appeal? Barbara Bradby and Brian Torode’, 73]; Barbara O’Connor [‘Aspects of Representation of Women in Irish Film’, 79]; Ciaran Moran [‘The Advertising Agency View of Ireland: Conservative Mono-Culture’, 84]; Mark P. Hederman [‘Cinema and The Icon’, 90]. THE LITERARY AND VISUAL ARTS: Fintan O’Toole [‘The Press and the Arts: Surfriders Merely on the Day’s Sensations’, 102]; Gerald Dawe [‘Poetry and the Public: Solitude and Participation’, 104]; Patrick Mason and Frank McGuinness [‘A Popular Theatre?’, 109]; Robert Leach [‘The Place of the Popular in D’Arcy and Arden ’s Plays’, 111]; Cormac Ó Cuilleanain [‘Irish Publishers: A Nation Once Too Often’, 115]; Jackie Coonie [‘’, ]; Dorothy Walker [‘Visual Aspects of Popular Culture’, 125]. THE COMMUNICATIONS DEBATE: Michael D. Higgins [‘The Tyranny of Images’, 132]; Richard Pine [‘After MacBride: Ireland and the New World Communication Order’, 143]; John Coolahan [‘The Dilemma of Educational Broadcasting in Ireland’, 157]; Mark Tierney [‘The Public and Private Image of The GAA - A Centenary Appraisal’, 161]; Michel Peillon [‘Tourism - A Quest for Otherness’, 165]; Sean Golden [‘Popular Culture in the People’s Republic of China’, 169]; Richard Kearney [‘A Debate on the Media and Popular Culture’: interview with Lelia Doolan, Nuala O Faolain, Ciaran Carty and Luke Gibbons, 175-95]; Artists, Philip McFadden, Keith Bowler, Martin Folen, Jeremiah O’Leary, Ann Tallentire.

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CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL DEBATE. Vol. 9, No. 1 (1985)
CONTENTS: Liam O’Dowd [‘Intellectuals in 20th Century Ireland: And the Case of George Russell (AE)’, 6]; Edna Longley [‘Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland’, 26]; Michael D. Higgins [‘Liam O’Flaherty & Peadar O’Donnell: Images of Rural Community’, 41]; Maurice Riordan [‘Eros and History: On Contemporary Irish Poetry’, 49]; Desmond Fennell [‘James Connolly and George Russell’, 56]; Derek Kelleher [‘The Alienation of Science: An Irish Cultural, Industrial and Political Problem’, 63]; Vincent Kenny [‘The Post-Colonial Personality’, 70]; Helena Sheehan [‘Is Television Drama Ideological?’, 79]; Nina Witoszek and Pat Sheeran [‘From Explanations to Intervention’, 83]; Richard Kearney [‘Between Conflict and Consensus’, 87]; Terence Brown [‘Irish Ideology’, 90]; Desmond Fennell [‘How Not to See Ireland’, 92]; Nina Witoszek & Pat Sheeran [Giving Culture a Kick - Modern Irish Culture Forum’, 94]; Richard Pine [‘Reflections on Dependence and Independence’, 96]; Michael McKeown [‘Dreams and Realities: A View of Education in the Republic’, 103]; Gerald Dawe [‘Getting Through: A Brief Look at the Fifth Province’, 107]; Mark P. Hederman [‘Poetry and the Fifth Province’, 110]; Edna Longley [‘A Reply’, 120-128]; Artists, Jack Donovan, Samuel Walsh.

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THE FINAL ISSUE: IRISH IDEOLOGIES. Vol. 9, No. 2, 1985)
CONTENTS: Richard Kearney and Ronan Sheehan [‘Introductory Note on The Ideological Debate’, 5]; Ben Mariante [‘Social Movements into Ideology in Ireland’, 8]; Ciaran Benson, Tom Garvin, Kathleen Lynch, Billy Roche [‘Ideology, Interests and Irish Education’, 12]; Michael D. Higgins and Brian Trench [‘Defeating the Politics of Fear: Ideology and the Left in Ireland’, 25]; John MacMenamin [‘Irish Politics: Ideologies and Realities’, 43]; Alan Matthews [‘Economics and Ideology’, 52]; Jennifer Fitzgerald, Seamus Deane, Joan Fowler, Frank McGuinness [‘The Arts and Ideology’, 60]; Richard Pine, Maurice Earls, Martin McLoone, Louis McRedmond [‘Ideology, Communications and Community’, 70’]; Micheal MacGreil and Dermot Moran [‘Religion, Tolerance and Social Change in Ireland’, 85]; Desmond Bell [‘Contemporary Cultural Studies in Ireland and the "Problem " of Protestant Ideology’, 91]; Eileen Kane, intro. Jim Sheehan [‘The Family System: A Cross-Cultural Perspective’, 96]; Donal Barrington, Patrick McEntee, Gerard Hogan [‘The Constitution, Law and Ideology’, 96]. II: Fintan O’Toole [‘Going West: The Country versus the City in Irish Writing’, 111]; Tom Moylan [‘Ideology in The Age of Reagan: Four Texts’, 117]; Anthony Burgess [‘We Walk in the City’, 123]; Patricia Gorman [‘Joyce and Engels on Sexual Oppression’, 130]; Terry Eagleton [‘Politics and Sexuality in W. B. Yeats’, 138]; Barney O’Reilly [‘A Note on the Cultural Debate and The Curriculum Debate, Barney O’Reilly’, 143]; David Noel Doyle [‘Contemporary Irish Identity: A Roman Catholic’s Reflection’, 146]; David Berman [‘Irish Philosophy and Ideology’, 158]; Brendan O’Regan [‘The Third Way: Through the Wandering Rocks’, 160]; Oliver McDonagh [‘What was new in the New Ireland Forum’, 166]; Mark P. Hederman [‘Post-Script’, Mark Patrick Hederman’, 171-176]. Artists, Mike Fitzpatrick and Barrie Cooke.

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