| Current Issue: No. 19 Spring 2000 Contents
Leader Republican cop-out
Restoring confidence in politics
Pat Rabbitte, Labour Party TD for Dublin South West, defends a beleaguered
profession
Time Was: a day on the bog
The National Archive is the source for a Garda report in May 1942 which
relates some unemployed Dublin workers' views of the government-sponsored Turf Cutting
Schemes
Partnership and the public sector
Deborah King says public sector workers should act on the public's
expectations of improved services. Deborah is executive director of the 1199/League
Employment, Training and Job Security Programme for Health Care Workers in New York.
Letter from Berlin
Anna Campanile, who teaches at the University of Cologne, describes a
city of change, 'a place of chance'
Creating a true international community
French Minister for Foreign Affairs Hubert Vedrine argues for a
multipolar, multilateral world of which a reformed United Nations would be the guardian
Peace cannot be taken for granted
Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, writes that
nuclear weapons and Cold War thinking should be consigned to history
Putting Haider in his place
Johannes Swoboda, Austrian MEP and foreign affairs spokesperson
for the Party of European Socialists, argues that a distinction should be made between
Jorg Haider and the Austrian people
Women's rights and nationalism
Maurice Goldring examines the relationship between feminism and
nationalism in the years leading to Irish independence. He has written extensively on
Ireland.
Book Reviews
Gavin Bowd reviews The Past of an Illusion by
Francois Furet
He is author of L'Interminable enterrement: Le communisme et les intellectuels
francais depuis 1956.
Arthur Aughey reviews Nine Lives: Ethnic
Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland by Waldemar Lotnik with Julian
Preece; Foreword by Neal Ascherson
Arthur Aughey lectures in politics at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown.
Malcolm Barry, Director of adult and community education at
Goldsmith's College, London, reviews Radical Heroes: Gramsci, Freire and the Politics
of Adult Education by Diana Cohen
New York-based journalist Peter McDermott reviews Ernie O'Malley:
IRA Intellectual by Richard English
Ron Callan, who lectures in English at University College, Dublin,
reviews Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish Identity
since 1884 by Mike Cronin
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