Irish Studies Review, Vol. 6 No. 1 (April 1998)

CONTENTS

ARTICLES: Bruce Stewart, ‘Inside Nationalism: A Meditation upon Inventing Ireland’ [5]; Barbara White, ‘The Inferior Sort of the Kingdom of Ireland: Irishmen and Tyburn Tree’ [17]; Michael de Nie, ‘The Famine, Irish Identity, and the British Press’ [27]; Selina Guinness, ‘Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland: Irish Folklore and British Anthropology, 1898-1920’ [7]; Keiko Inoue, ‘Dail Propaganda and the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain during the Anglo-Irish War’ [7]; Klaus-Gunnar Schneider, ‘Irishness and Postcoloniality in Glenn Patterson’s Burning Your Own’ [55]; Richard Mills, ‘Closed Places of the Spirit: Interview with Maurice Leitch’ [63-68].

REVIEWS: Matthew Stout, The Irish Ringfort (Four Courts 1997), reviewed by Charles E. Orser, Jr.; Jonathan Bardon, A Shorter Illustrated History of Ulster (Blackstaff 1996), reviewed by Bill Rolston; Jean Agnew, Belfast Merchant Families in the Seventeenth Century (Four Courts 1996), reviewed by L. M. Cullen; Martyn Bennett, The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638-1651 (Blackwell 1997), reviewed by Willy Maley; Patrick McNally, Parties, Patriots and Undertakers: Parliamentary Politics in early Hanoverian Ireland (Four Courts 1997), reviewed by Neal Garnham; Ian Crowe, ed., Edmund Burke: His Life and Legacy (Four Courts 1997), reviewed by Jefferson Holdridge; Kenneth Milne, The Irish Charter Schools, 1730-1830 (Four Courts 1997), reviewed by Janet Nolan; Kevin Whelan, The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the Construction of Irish Identity, 1760-1830 (Cork UP 1996), reviewed by David Dickson; Jim Herlihy, The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Short History and Genealogical Guide (Four Courts 1997), reviewed by Brian Griffin; Fergal Cochrane, Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo-Irish Agreement (Cork Up 1997), reviewed by Patrick Maume; James Kelly, Bonfires on the Hillside: An Eyewitness Account of Political Upheaval in Northern Ireland (Fountain Publ. 1995), reviewed by Andrew J. Wilson; Ronald H. Bayor & Timothy J. Meagher, eds., The New York Irish (Johns Hopkins 1996), and Ann M. Shea & Marion R. Casey, The Irish Experience in New York City: A Select Bibliography (NY Irish Hist. Roundtable 1995), reviewed by Patrick O’Sullivan; Nina Auerbach & David J. Skal, eds., Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton 1997), Peter Haining & Peter Tremayne, The Un-Dead: The Legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula (Constable 1997), and Stephen Jones, The Mammoth Book of Dracula (Robinson Publ. 1997), reviewed by Lisa Hopkins; Vincent Sherry, James Joyce: Ulysses (Cambridge UP 1997), and Cordell D. K. Yee, The Word According to James Joyce: Reconstructing Representation (Bucknell 1997), reviewed by Keith Williams; James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (Bloomsbury 1997), Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (HarperCollins 1996), and Mary Junker, Beckett: The Irish Dimension (Wolfhound 1995), reviewed by Ronan McDonald; Donatella Abbate Badin, Thomas Kinsella (Twayne 1996), reviewed by Justin Quinn; Augustine Martin, Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature (UCD Press 1996), reviewed by Kevin Barry; Christopher Murray, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation (Manchester UP 1997), reviewed by Jose Lanters; John D. Harrington, The Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874-1966 (Kentucky UP 1997), reviewed by Nicholas Grene; Csilla Bertha, ed., The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Kossuth Lajas UP 1996), reviewed by John Devitt; Axel Klein, Die Musik Irlands im 20: Jahrhundert / Irish Music in the 20th Century (George Olms Verlag 1996), reviewed by Robert Blackburn; Stephanie McBride & Roddy Flynn, eds., Here’s Looking at You, Kid!: Ireland Goes to the Pictures (Wolfhound 1996) reviewed by Lance Pettitt; Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert (Samuelson/Polygram 1997), reviewed by David Rose.


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