Articles on a wide range of issues concerning the education system of Ireland are presented. The articles include: "Presidential Address to the ESAI Annual Conference, Thomond College, Limerick, March 1990" (J. Wilson); "Introduction to BOB--A Problem Solving Package" (L. Caul; L. Greenwood); "Coping with Impersonal Orientations in Staff Development Designs" (M. Barry); "Teaching Higher Levels of Thinking in Elementary Geometry" (K. Gentile); "Gender Issues in Classroom Dynamics: The Need for Research at Second Level" (J. Hanafin); "How Shall Staff Development Programmes be Evaluated?" (J. Gentile); "Aspects of Play in the Junior Infant Classroom" (M. Horgan); "Girls and Science: Equality in School or Society? (A case for macro and micro analysis)" (N. O'Conaill); "The I.N.T.O., the Bishops and the Clash on School Funding (1945-1954)" (N. Ward); "The Limits of Paternalism in Educational Relations" (K. Williams); "Second Level Mathematics Curricula: The Republic of Ireland in International Perspective" (E. Oldham); "The Educational Dimension of Vocational Rehabilitation" (P. Davies); "The Teaching of Senior-Cycle Religion: An Irish Perspective" (G. Bourke); "Girls into Technology: Issues Arising from the Evaluation of a Curriculum Development Project" (J. Gleeson); "Government Policy, The Church of Ireland and The Teaching of Irish 1940-1950" (V. Jones); "Reconceptualizing the Post-primary Curriculum: A Grid-matrix for the Design and Evaluation of a Core Curriculum" (J. McKernan); "Sport and Education: The Case for a Non-competitive Approach" (R. O'Donnchadha);"Values Development as Content for the Curriculum" (R. Houghton); "Ideological Conflict and Historical Interpretation: The Problem of History in Irish Primary Education c1900-1930" (A. S. MacShamhrain); "Part-time Mature Students in Higher Education: A Cast Study" (M. Morrissey and D. Irvine); "How General Ability Interacts with Instructional Methods to Produce Different Learning Outcomes" (B. Surgrue; B. Barnicle); and "Integrating Equal Opportunities in the Curriculum of Teacher Education 1988-1991: Tenet Programme Dissemination Phase" (S. Drudy and others). (DB)