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Introduction
A new England called Ireland?
Ireland : England's unconsious? Interchapter ; Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman ; John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw
Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part. Interchapter ; Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross ; Lady Gregory and the empire boys
Yeats : looking into the lion's face. Interchapter ; Childhood and Ireland ; The national longing for form
Return to the source? Interchapter ; Deanglicization ; Nationality of cosmopolitanism? ; J.M. Synge : remembering the future
Revolution and war. Interchapter ; Uprising ; The Plebians revise the uprising ; The Great War and Irish memory
Worlds apart? Ireland and the end of empire
Inventing Irelands. Interchapter ; Writing Ireland, reading Ireland ; Inventing Irelands ; Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics ; The last Aisling : a vision ; James Joyce and mythic realism
Sexual politics. Interchapter ; Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt ; Fathers and sons ; Mothers and daughters
Protestant revivals. Interchapter ; Protholics and Cathestants ; Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic ; The winding stair ; Religious writing : Beckett and others
Underdevelopment. Interchapter ; The periphery and the centre ; Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth ; The empire writes back : Brendan Behan ; Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting ; Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod"
Recovery and renewal. Interchapter ; Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 ; Friel translating ; Translating tradition
Reinventing Ireland. Imaging Irish studies.
A new England called Ireland?
Ireland : England's unconsious? Interchapter ; Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman ; John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw
Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part. Interchapter ; Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross ; Lady Gregory and the empire boys
Yeats : looking into the lion's face. Interchapter ; Childhood and Ireland ; The national longing for form
Return to the source? Interchapter ; Deanglicization ; Nationality of cosmopolitanism? ; J.M. Synge : remembering the future
Revolution and war. Interchapter ; Uprising ; The Plebians revise the uprising ; The Great War and Irish memory
Worlds apart? Ireland and the end of empire
Inventing Irelands. Interchapter ; Writing Ireland, reading Ireland ; Inventing Irelands ; Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics ; The last Aisling : a vision ; James Joyce and mythic realism
Sexual politics. Interchapter ; Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt ; Fathers and sons ; Mothers and daughters
Protestant revivals. Interchapter ; Protholics and Cathestants ; Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic ; The winding stair ; Religious writing : Beckett and others
Underdevelopment. Interchapter ; The periphery and the centre ; Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth ; The empire writes back : Brendan Behan ; Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting ; Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod"
Recovery and renewal. Interchapter ; Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 ; Friel translating ; Translating tradition
Reinventing Ireland. Imaging Irish studies.