Volume XXXII Numbers 2 & 3 Samhradh/Fómhar Summer/Fall 1997 €10.00
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Daughter's of Colony: A Personal Interpretation of the Place of Gender Issues in the Postcolonial Interpretation of Irish Literature by Eavan Boland 9
Interpreting Silences: An Anthropological Perspective on the Great Irish Famine by Joan Vincent 21
From Nationalism to “Baby X": An Interview with Northern Irish Filmmaker Margo Harkin by Megan Sullivan 40
Recapturing the Flag: The Campaign to Repeal the Party Processions Act, 1860-1872 by Sean Farrell 52
“No, This is Not From The Bell": Brian O'Nolan's 1943 Cruiskeen Lawn Anthology by Steven Curran 79
Fianna Fáil, Constitutional Republicanism, and the Issue of Consent: 1980-1996 by Gareth Ivory 93
Unsound Plots: Culture and Politics in Spencer's A View of the Present State of Ireland by Glenn Hooper 117
The Chaplaincy Question: The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Versus the Belfast Lunatic Asylum by Pauline Prior and David Griffiths 137
Propaganda of Dáil Éireann: from Truce to Treaty by Keiko Inoue 154
The Belfast Group: A Recollection by Philip Hobsbaum 173
Reviews and Commentary
W.B. Yeats: Endings and Beginnings: A Review Essay by Declan Kiberd 183
A Provincial Passion: Cleansing Irish Literature of Irishness by Desmond Fennell 192
Notes and Queries 204
Cover: Stepping Out: Reading Rita Duffy's Dancer by Adele Dalsimer and Vera Kreilkamp 208
Contributors 218