Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History
                New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1985 / 1993

    Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories
              Dublin: Radio Telefis Eireann, 1987 / 2001

    The Continuing Story of Irish Television Drama: Tracking the Tiger
            Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004

"The History of the Philosophy of Science: A Broader Perspective"
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LOGIC, METHODOLOGY & THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCEHannover 1979

Philosophers, Scientists and the Unity of Science
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE  Bucharest 1981

"Images of the 60s in the 80s: Memories of Social Unrest in US TV Series"
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION STUDIES CONFERENCE   London 1988

"The False Dilemma of the 20th Century"DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND MODERN SCIENCE
(edited by I.T. Frolov) Prague 1978 (English, German and Russian editions)

"Contemporary Science and the Varieties of Western Marxism"  IRISH SOCIALIST REVIEW Dublin 1978

"Is Television Drama Ideological?" THE CRANE BAG Vol. 9 No. 1 1985

"Navigating the Zeitgeist: Socialism and the Spirit of the Age"  SOCIALISM IN THE WORLD No. 70 Belgrade 1988

"Portrait of a Marxist as a Young Nun" MARXISM AND SPIRITUALITY: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
(edited by Benjamin Page) Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1993

"Reflections on Eastern Europe"MAKING SENSE April 1991

"The End of History: Grand Narratives of Our Time"  TIMES CHANGE Spring 1996

"Writing and the Zeitgeist: Reflections During the Dublin Festival of Literature"  IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Autumn 1991

"Of Snails and Sisyphus" GRAPH Winter 1991-92

"Gender and Genre: The End of His Story"GRAPH Summer 1992

"America: Symptoms of Decline" THE IRISH REVIEW  Winter 1992

"Public Service Broadcasting: Against the Tide" IRISH COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW 1992

"The Parameters of the Permissible: How Scrap Saturday Got Away With It" IRISH COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW 1992

"Ideological Analysis and the Alternatives" IRISH COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW1995

"Television in Ireland" (with E Holt) TELEVISION IN EUROPE Intellect Books 1997

“Television” in A COMPANION TO MODERN IRISH CULTURE Blackwell 1999 & 2001

"Grand Narratives Then and Now: Can We Still Conceptualise History ?  SOCIALISM & DEMOCRACY  Vol. 12  No.1-2 1998

"A Voice from the Dead" an introduction  to PHILOSOPHICAL ARABESQUES a major philosophical manuscript written by Nikolai Bukharin in 1937, one of the most important discoveries made from documents retrieved in recent times from Kremlin archives. Monthly Review Press,  NYU Press and  Seagull Books,  2004.

Also:

• Reviews in various journals, eg:
• • review of  Marx's Ecology by John Bellamy Foster (NY: Monthly Review Press, 2000) for Monthly Review October 2000 also at  http://www.monthlyreview.org/1000shee.htm

• review of  Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy edited by Joseph Dunne, Attracta Ingram and Frank Litton (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2000)  for Irish Political Studies 2000
• review of  Beyond the Science Wars edited by Ullica Segerstrale (Albany: State University of New York Press 2000) for Public Understanding of Science  April 2001 also at http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/UNREG/BfK,5o8Arbq9auk6RyGkNQ/abstract/0963-6625/10/2/706
• Chapters in books and articles in journals in foreign languages (eg, in German, French, Russian, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian)

• Reviews of books, television, film and theatre in newspapers and magazines also on television and radio

• Monthly television column in THE IRISH SOCIALIST 1976-1979

• Monthly media column in THE NEW NATION 1988-89

• Articles on Eastern Europe in THE IRISH TIMES 1989-1991
"Communists Come to Terms With Democracy" (Cavtat) November 1989
"Marxist Journal Reforms Too Late" (World Marxist Review) March 1990
"Dimming of the Red Dawn" May 1990
"Montenegro Diary" August 1990
"Kosovo Letter" September 1990
"In Search of a New Political Identity" (Vienna) October 1990
"Standing in the Wreckage of Utopia" (CPGB) December 1990
"A New Left Variation on an Old Tradition" (PDS) January 1991
"A Critical Spirit & a Sense of Fun" (G Gysi) January 1991
"German Unity: The Other Side of the Story" May 1991
"Black Sea Diary" September 1991
"The New Nationalism: Against History's Tide" November 1991
"National Identity: Only Part of What We Are" November 1991

• Articles in MAKING SENSE  1989-92
"Socialists in New York" (Socialist Scholars Conference 1991)
"The News from Moscow" March 1992
 
• Report on IAMCR Conference Dublin 1993 in THE IRISH TIMES

• Miscellaneous articles in HIBERNIA, THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE, THE IRISH PRESS, etc.

• Regular articles on Ireland for NEUES DEUTSCHLAND Berlin 1990-1997

• ZEITGEIST column commissioned by THE IRISH TIMES

"The Epistemological Crisis of Our Times"
paper given at Brecht Forum in New York, sponsored by journal Science and Society May 1997, World Congress of Philosophy Boston 1998

"Images of the 60s in the 80s: Memories of Social Unrest in US TV Series"
paper delivered to International Television Studies Conference  London 1988

"Soap Opera and Social Order: Glenroe, Fair City and Contemporary Ireland (or Biddy, Bella and the Big Issues of the Day)"
paper given at IMAGINING IRELAND conference at Irish Film Centre 1993

"Grand Narratives Then and Now: The Communist Manifesto"
paper given at International Conference for 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto Paris May 1998

"CLASS: defining it, dramatising it, debating it"
paper given at conference on CLASS at University College Dublin December 1999

"The History of Ideas and the Other: Class, Race, Gender and Knowledge"
paper for Cultures in Transition conference at Dublin City University February 2000

NAVIGATING THE ZEITGEIST: A Grand Narrative
 

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