Across the frontiers : Ireland in the 1990s : cultural, political, economic
Dublin : Wolfhound Press, 1988. First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476207
ISBN: 086327210X
Physical description; 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Political perspectives – Frontiers of the mind / T.J. Barrington – Europe of the regions / John Hume – Ireland in Europe in 1992 : problems and prospects for a mutual interdependency / Michael D. Higgins – Ireland in the 1990s – north and south / Paul Bew and Henry Patterson – Thinking globally and acting locally / Rosemarie Rowley – Towards a world community of communities / Desmond Fennell – Social and economic perspectives – Ireland's economic welfare in a barrier free Europe / Eithne Murphy – Pluralism and community / Frank Barry – A granular society / Ivor Browne – The role of the European community's structural funds in the 1990s / Alan Matthews – Cultural perspectives – Migrant minds – The white nigger / Paul Hewson (Bono) – Passage to Utopia / Paul Durcan – Imagining otherwise / Neil Jordan – Responding / Robert Ballagh – Coming out of hibernation? The myth of modernity in Irish culture / Luke Gibbons – Ireland without frontiers? The challenge of the communications revolution / Desmond Bell – Religion, Ireland : in mutation / Joseph O'Leary – International perspectives – The debate on European cultural identity – The cultural storm / Alberto Moravia – A Europe of regional cultures / Edgar Faure – Europe seen from elsewhere / Win Wenders – European cultural identity / Edgar Morin – The other Europe / Julia Kristeva – The case for European cultural television / Georges Duby – Notes on the postmodern debate / Jean-François Lyotard – Passage to postmodernism / Tom Docherty. Subjects; Ireland – Civilization – 20th century. Ireland – Politics and government – 1949-. Ireland – Economic conditions – 1949-. Ireland – Forecasting. Social prediction – Ireland. Economic forecasting – Ireland. International relations – Forecasting. European cooperation.
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