Introduction: The Imperfect as a Site of Contestation in Contemporary Ireland; Luz Mar González-Arias
PART I: THE TIGER AND BEYOND: POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND LITERARY FISSURES
1. What Plenty Laid Bare! Ireland's Harsh Confrontation with Itself: 1999-2014; Ciarán Benson
2. Satiric Insights into Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: The Case of Peter Cunningham's Capital Sins; Juan F. Elices
3. Understanding the Imperfect in John McGahern's First and Last Novels; Anita Morgan
PART II: DISRUPTIONS RELIGION, FAMILY AND MARRIAGE
4. Hard Times and Sibling Songs: Sibling Relations in Contemporary Irish Literature; Patricia Coughlan
5. Psychological Resilience in Emma Donoghue's Room; Marisol Morales Ladrón
6. The Fallen Sex Revisited: Imperfect Celibacy in Mary Rose Callaghan’s A Bit of a Scandal; Auxiliadora Pérez Vides
PART III: EX-CENTRIC BODIES AND DISQUIETING SPACES
7. Form, Deformity: On Pathology and Poetics in Paul Muldoon; Rui Carvalho Homem
8. Imperfection as a Chance: Matrixial Borderspaces in Anne Enright; Hedwig Schwall
9. Monstrous Mothers and Mutant Others: Bodies Out of Place in Emer Martin's Baby Zero; Aida Rosende Pérez
10. Changing Places: The Imperfect City in Contemporary Irish Poetry; Lucy Collins
PART IV: STEREOTYPES AND THE DISTORTION OF IRISHNESS
11. Irish Drinking Culture on the Screen; Rosa González-Casademont
12. Treading the Boards? Be Sure to Put on the Right Brogues! The Actor's Search for the Perfect Irish Accent; Shane Walshe
PART V: UNBECOMING IRISH LITERATURE: THE INSIDE GAZE
13. "Absolutely Imperfect": In Conversation with Lia Mills; Luz Mar González-Arias
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