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No 10 ^CI^i^HK?^ Spring 1991

THE

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Editors ?

Kevin Barry

Tom Dunne

Richard Kearney

Edna Longley

Clare O'Halloran

Brian Walker

The Institute of Irish Studies

The Queen's University of Belfast

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Published by The Institute of Irish Studies, 1991

Copyright ? The Irish Review and the contributors 1991 ISSN 0790 - 7850

Cover Design: Wendy Dunbar

The Irish Review provides a forum for critical and creative writing in English and Irish. Its editorial policy is pluralist and inter?

disciplinary: pluralist in its commitment to involving writers

from all parts and traditions of the island; interdisciplinary in its

desire to publish articles on the arts, society, philosophy, history,

politics, the environment and science. Our aim is to serve a

general rather than a specialist readership.

THIS JOURNAL RECEIVES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE ARTS COUNCIL/AN COMHAIRLE EALA?ON

AND THE ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND

Contributions are invited from Ireland and from abroad - to be

sent to The Editors, The Irish Review, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 8 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast.

Telephone (0232) 245133 ext. 3386; Fax (0232) 247895

Annual Subscription Rates (2 issues)

Ireland & England (including p&p).?10.00 Transatlantic & Continental (including p&p).$25.00

Typeset and Printed by W. & G. Baird Ltd, Antrim

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Contents

Editorial Note v

Dublin/Europe

Montage, Modernism and the City Luke Gibbons 1

Meridian -

Dublin and Amsterdam

Michael O'Loughlin 7

The Dublin Renaissance

Ferdia Mac Anna 14

A Baltic City Diarmuid O Giollain 31

Moscow -

The Third Rome?

Peter Emerson 35

Connexions: Edinburgh

Evelyn Conlon 40

Europe/Dublin Neutral Neutrality

Peter Bichsel 43

In Praise of No-Man's Land

Harry Mulisch 47

In Eco's Labyrinth Umberto Eco interviewed by Cees Nooteboom 51

Antiquity Revisited Vassilis Vassilikos 61

Cities of Europe Claudio Magris interviewed by Ronan Sheehan 70

Gens Europea Kirsti Simonsuuri 77

The European Cornucopia

Agnes Heller 81

Cities of Culture: A Warning from Glasgow Alasdair Gray 91

Cities at War

Robert McLiam Wilson 95

Poetry

Helen

C.K. Williams 99

Safe Houses

Gerald Dawe 106

The Scarecrow

Greg Delanty 107

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Two Poems

Phil MacCarthy 108

The Shed Maurice Harmon 110

Book Reviews

GEORGE O'BRIEN

Julia Carlson (ed): Banned in Ireland

James Plunkett: The Circus Animals

Roddy Doyle: The Snapper Hugo Hamilton: Surrogate City 113

JOHN DARBY

John Whyte: Interpreting Northern Ireland

Padraig O'Malley: Northern Ireland: Questions of Nuance

John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary: The Future of Northern Ireland 118

LIAM O'DOWD Richard Breen, Dami?n Hannan, David Rottman and

Christopher Whelan: Understanding Contemporary Ireland Liam Kennedy: The Modern Industrialisation of Ireland 1940-1988 Brian Girvin: Between Two Worlds: Politics and Economy in

Independent Ireland

John F. McCarthy (ed) Planning Ireland's Future: The Legacy of T.K. Whitaker

Robert Allen and Tara Jones: Guests of the Nation: People of Ireland versus the Multinationals 122

PATRICIA COUGHLAN Louise De Salvo, Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy and Katherine Hogan (eds):

Territories of the Voice

Mary Beckett: A Literary Woman

Mary Dorcey : A Noise from the Woodshed Victoria White: Raving Autumn and Other Stories 127

JOHN GOODBY Paul Muldoon: Madoc

Tom Paulin (ed): The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse 132

JOEP LEERSON Norman Vance: Irish Literature: A Social History 137

L.A. CLARKSON W.G. Neely: Kilkenny:

an Urban History William Nolan and Kevin Whelan (eds): Kilkenny: History and Society 139

TOM DUNNE Obituary: Sean Daly 143

Among our Contributors 146

IV

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