The 13 papers collected in this volume illustrate the issues that currently interest educational researchers in Ireland. Seamus O. Suilleabhain explores education as a profession and the concept of professional identity. Papers written by Jim McKernan, Diarmuid Leonard, and Luke Murtagh examine curriculum research and development as a professional activity. Susan Parkes and Ann FitzGibbon introduce autobiography as a methodology for illuminating professional concerns in pre-service teacher education programs. Three papers, written by Declan Irvine, Yvonne O'Reilly, and Kevin Williams and Gerry McNamara, focus on concerns about inservice education and the coherence of youth education programs. An experimental teaching supervision program is considered by Maire Ui Chathain, while papers by Mary Meany and Maire O Murehada describe various aspects of music education curricula. Anthony Motherway stresses the role and status of textbooks in teaching history and English, and John McMahon considers broadcast-based teaching as a concept in open learning systems. (JHP)