Papers from a conference entitled: Northern Ireland, the Mind of a Community in Crisis, held at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in Sept. 1984.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. The impact of the Northern Ireland crisis on the economy / N.J. Gibson -- Psychological well-being in Northern Ireland / Karen Trew -- The impact of the troubles on the law and legal system of Northern Ireland / D.S. Greer -- The Northern Ireland electorate / Joseph E. Thompson -- The faith and its forms in times of strife / Eric Gallagher -- Catholics, Catholicism, and the Northern Ireland crisis / Gary MacEoin -- "Words at once both gaff and bait" : the writer's response to Northern Ireland / Joseph Browne -- Poets and culture : Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Tom Paulin / Terence Brown -- "No petty people" : William Trevor and the Anglo-Irish dimension ... / Robert E. Rhodes -- Community conscience of reflection? : theatre in Northern Ireland / Claudia Harris