REVIEWS OF BOOKS

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IRLAND: EINE GEOGRAPHISCHE LANDESKUNDE, by Helmut Jäger. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990. DM 59. ISBN 3 534 07619 2. Reviewed by ANNGRET SIMMS

THE MODERN INDUSTRIALISATION OF IRELAND 1940–1988, by Liam Kennedy. Studies in Irish Social and Economic History 5 (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, c/o Department of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin 2), 1989. 74pp. IR£3.95p. ISSN 0 790 2913. Reviewed by PROINNSIAS BREATHNACH

POCKET GUIDE TO THE IRISH LANDSCAPE, by J.C. Brindley. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1989. 72pp. IR£2.95. ISBN 0 86281 226 7. Reviewed by F.H.A.AALEN

GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BELFAST REGION, edited by Paul Doherty. Dublin: Geographical Society of Ireland Special Publications No.5, 1990. 114pp. IR£6.00. ISBN 0 9510402 5 1. Reviewed by JAMES H. JOHNSON

THE IVEAGH TRUST: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS.I890–1990, by F.H.A. Aalen. Dublin: The I veagh Trust, 1990.98pp. I R£8.00. ISBN 0 951594206 Reviewed by A.J. PARKER

URBANIZATION AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT: RECENT TRENDS AND STRATEGIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT, edited by Michael J. Bannon, Larry S. Bourne and Robert Sinclair. Dublin : Service Industries Research Centre, University College Dublin, 1991. 249pp. IR£15.00. ISBN 1870089 43 X. Reviewed by A.J. PARKER

THE IRISH SEA: A RESOURCE AT RISK, edited by John C. Sweeney. Dublin : Geographical Society of Ireland Special Publications No.3, 1989. 192pp. IR£8.00. ISBN 0 9510402 3 5. Reviewed by FRANK OLDFIELD

THE BRITISH SEAS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OCEANOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES OF THE NORTH-WEST EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL SHELF, by J. Hardisty. London: Routledge, 1990. 272pp. £35.00 stg. ISBN 0 415 03586 4. Reviewed by JOHN SWEENEY