Winter/ 2009

Editorial

Articles

Planning your death while alive

Gabriel Byrne

'Death, like Sun cannot be looked at steadily'

Maurice Manning

Forum on End of Life

Bob Carroll

Securing a "Good Death" in an Irish Hospital 

Denis Doherty

Design and Dignity in Hospitals

Ian Clarke

Hospice Care: Saving the Taxpayers' Money

Eugene Murray

Developing a Supportive Policy Framework 
for End of Life

Mervyn Taylor

Living with the Dead:
Burial, Cremation and Memory

Ken Warpole

Conversations with the Irish public 
about death and dying

Joan Mc Carthy; Mark Loughrey; 
John Weafer; Dolores Dooley

Review Article

Politics in Ireland: Convergence and Divergence in a Two-Polity Island, by Maura Adshead and Jonathan Tonge

Poetry

December Lights in Pearse Street

A Poem by Mary Guckian

Christmas Eve, Syngefield

A Poem by Hugh O'Donnell