Research problems and issues of concern to educators in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are discussed in 21 papers. Papers fall into the general categories of educational history and current practices. Papers in the first category cover the following topics: a history of the Education Inquiry of 1824-1826, the "hedge" or private primary schools which existed in Ireland prior to institution of the national school system in 1831, the relationship between the Christian Brothers schools and the national school system, the relationship between the Irish treasury and the national school system, a history of the Royal Commission on Technical Instruction (1881-1884), the Educational Endowments Act of 1885, and Henry Edward Armstrong and experimental science in the schools. Papers dealing with current practices examine the views of Northern Ireland teachers, cognitive consciousness and the teaching of reading, peace education, Northern Ireland's management education program, problems and trends in computer-based education, business studies in Irish schools, the effect of the economic recession on business studies, ritual and symbol in the culture of Northern Ireland's primary schools, attitudes of "Leaving Certificate" students, the overhead projector as a teaching instrument, open curricula, residential schooling for the hearing impaired, an analysis of the post-primary curriculum, and the relation between theory and practice. (LP)