A selection of articles from Wigmore, edited by Vincent Browne

Film, Theatre, The Liberties Festival, and the Censorship Seminar

ISRAEL'S WIN OF THE 23rd Eurovision Song Contest at the Palais des Congres on Saturday 22nd April 1978 was the greatest upset for the form books virtually since the launching of the contest in 1956.

O'BRIEN'S PUB in Sussex Tce., off Upper Leeson St., Dublin, has become one of the "in" swinging pubs of late, primarily because the lack of seating accommodation in the lounge encourrages social intercourse, as they say.

IT'S ONE OF THE stranger facts about motoring in Irelland that many dealers don't stock the type of oil reecommended by their own manufacturers. This means that your car, which may run best on (say) Castrol GTX 20W-50, could receive instead a transfusion of Shell Super at its regular service. Now, Shell Super is an excellent oil but it may not be right for your car.

The coyness of our long distance runner ,  by Selwyn Parker

1913 was the year of the heroic uprising by the Dublin prolateriat. A new book, "Divided City" prepared by the Curriculum Development Unit of the VEC, chronicles the struggle, and here, with the permission of the publishers, O'Brien Press, we publish a precis of the text and some of the book's most, outstanding photographs.

In the last issue of Magill, UCD economist, Paddy Geary, critically annalysed the Government's economic strategy. Here Martin 0 'Donoghue, the Minister for Economic Planning and Development, replies in the course of an interview with Magill.

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY, through a clerical error (if Noel Browne will forgive the pun), holds its connference on the same week-end as the Fine Gael Ard Fheis. And, though an estimated one-tenth of the Fine Gael attendance will turn out, the omens are that Ireland's newest and smallest political party with Dail representation will reveal significant divergences of view on key issues. By MARY MORRISON.

ONE OF THE FEW distinguishing characteristics of Fine Gael in the 'sixties was its liberal image but this was seriously tarnished in Government.