Irish Studies Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (August 2000)

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Index and Cover-page Album

Contents
 
Articles
  • Charles Orser, ‘Why is there no Archaeology in Irish Studies?’ [157]
  • Janette Condon, ‘The Patriotic Children’s Treat: Irish Nationalism and Children’s Culture at the Twilight of Empire’ [167]
  • Michael McAteer, ‘A Split Unity: Gender and History in A.E.’s Poetry’ [179]
  • Andrew Thacker, ‘Toppling Masonry and Textual Space: Nelson’s Pillar and Spatial Politics in Ulysses’ [195]
  • GillianMclntosh, ‘'Life is a series of Oppositions': The Prose Work of W. R. Rodgers’ [205]
  • Graham Spencer, ‘Negotiating Peace: Politics, Television News and the Northern Ireland Peace Process’ [217]
 
Review Article
  • Liam Harte, ‘Free State Interrogators: Liam O’Flaherty and Frank O’Connor, review of The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty and My Father’s Son by Frank O’Connor.’ [233]
 
Reviews
  • A History of Settlement in Ireland, ed. Terry Barry, reviewed by John Robb.
  • History of the Diocese of Derry from Earliest Times, ed. H. A. Jefferies & C. Devlin; and History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin, ed. J. Kelly & D. Keogh, reviewed by Dom Aidan Bellenger.
  • The Irish Act of Union: A Study in High Politics 1798-1801, by Patrick M. Geoghegan, reviewed by Norman Vance.
  • The Meaning of the Famine: The Irish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity, Vol. 6, ed. Patrick O’Sullivan; and Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish, by Frank Neal reviewed by Peter Gray.
  • In Their Own Words: The Famine in North Connacht, 1845-1849, by Liam Swords, reviewed by Gerard Moran.
  • Civil War in Ulster, by Joseph Johnston, ed. Roy Johnston, reviewed by D. George Boyce.
  • The Irish Constabularies 1822-1922: A Century of Policing in Ireland, by Donal J. O’Sullivan, reviewed by Clive Emsley.
  • Irish America, by Reginald Byron, reviewed by Patrick O’Farrell.
  • Breaking Enmities: Religion, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1967-97, by Patrick Grant; and The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture, ed. Malcolm Anderson & Eberhard Bort, reviewed by Richard Kirkland.
  • Ireland After History, by David Lloyd, reviewed by Shaun Richards.
  • Luxury and Austerity, ed. Jacqueline Hill & Colm Lennon, reviewed by Janet Nolan.
  • The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Twentieth-century Ireland, by Gillian Mclntosh, reviewed by Patrick Maume.
  • “A Dream of Liberty”: Constance Markievicz’s Vision of Ireland, 1908-1927, by Sari Oikarinen, reviewed by Sally Trueman-Dicken.
  • The Rights of Nations: Nations and Nationalism in a Changing World, ed. Desmond M. Clarke & Charles Jones, reviewed by Willy Maley.
  • Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures, ed. Grant Jarvie, reviewed by Neal Garnham.
  • Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity since 1884, by Mike Cronin, reviewed by Brian Griffin.
  • Media in Ireland: The Search for Ethical Journalism, ed. Damien Kiberd, reviewed by Jayne Steel.
  • Contemporary Irish Cinema: From “The Quiet Man” to “Dancing at Lughnasa”, by James MacKillop, reviewed by Lance Pettitt;
  • Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940, ed. Greta Jones & Elizabeth Malcolm, reviewed by Ann Dally.
  • Theology and Modern Irish Art, by Gesa E. Thiessen, reviewed by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch.
  • That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts, ed. Bruce Stewart, reviewed by Jürgen Kamm.
  • Charles Dickens’s Ireland: An Anthology, Including an Account of his Visits to Ireland, by Jim Cooke, reviewed by Melissa Fegan.
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula Unearthed, ed. Clive Leatherdale; and Dracula - The Shade and the Shadow: A Critical Anthology, ed. Elizabeth Miller, reviewed by Lisa Hopkins.
  • Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist, by Bruce Bashford; and Oscar Wilde ’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age, by Mary Warner Blanchard, reviewed by Maureen O’Connor.
  • James Joyce, by Edna O’Brien; Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce, ed. Sebastian D. G. Knowles; Joyce ’s Music and Noise: Theme and Variation in His Writings, by Jack Weaver, and Authorship, Ethics and the Reader by Dominic Rainsford, reviewed by Richard Brown.
  • Reading Derrida Reading Joyce, by Alan Roughley, reviewed by Lawrence James.
  • No-thing is Left to Tell: Zen Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett, by John Leeland Kundert-Gibbs, and Beckett and Beyond, ed. Bruce Stewart, reviewed by Paul Lawley.
  • Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland, by Laura Pelaschiar, reviewed by Kim Wallace.
  • The White Page (An Bhíleog Bhán): Twentieth-century Irish Women Poets, ed. Joan McBreen, reviewed by Julie Smith.
  • Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry, ed. Noel Duffy & Theo Dorgan, reviewed by Michael W. Thomas.
  • The Poetry Quartets: 4 by Paul Durcan, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley & Medbh McGuckian, reviewed by Sarah Fulford.
  • Begin, by Brendan Kennelly, reviewed by Äke Persson.
Reviews/Literature
  • Literature Interpretation Theory, Special Issue: “Ireland: The Presence of the Past” Parts I & II, ed. Lee A. Jacobus & Regina Barreca, Guest Editor Barbara A. Suess, reviewed by Clare Wallace.
  • The Story of Irish Dance by Helen Brennan, reviewed by Tara Brabazon.

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