Abstract

This report has been prepared under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy's National Committee for Geography, a body which includes representatives of all university level geography departments in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The various colleges of education, the Irish Ordnance Survey, the Ordnance Survey (Northern Ireland), the Agriculture Institute and the Irish Planning Institute are represented also on the Committee. The primary purpose of the report is to communicate the diversity of the writings of geographers in Ireland for the period between the Sydney (1988) and Washington (1992) I.G.U. Congresses, but as this is the first such report to Congress the opportunity has been taken to include a brief review of the history of the departments of geography in Ireland. the report lists the publications of geographers employed in Ireland during the period 1987-1991 (Part Four) and includes a directory of existing geography departments and their current staff (Part Two). It is hoped that the latter information will be of sue to those seeking to make contact with individual Irish geographers or their departments.