New Voices in Irish Criticism Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	'Scenes of Tawdry Tribute': Modernism, Tradition and Connolly	3
	The Irish Revival: A Re-appraisal	12
	The Year of the Undead: 1898	19
	Yeats and Wilde: Nation and Identity, Ground for Influence	27
	George Bernard Shaw and the Irish Literary Revival	33
	'No Such Genre': Tradition and the Contemporary Irish Novel	45
	John Banville and Irish History: The Newton Letter	52
	Edna O'Brien's A Pagan Place and the Irish Bildungsroman Tradition	58
	The Third Policeman as a Re-Vision of Yeats	64
	Satisfaction Guaranteed? Reading Irish Women's Popular Fiction	77
	An Intensity of Irishness: George Egerton's Representations of Irish Femininity	83
	The Construction of Audience: Lady Morgan's Irish Fiction and Its British Critical Reception	92
	Words Bursting, Words Witnessed: Language and Violence in Jennifer Johnston's War Novels	99
	'A Stasis of Hatred, Fear and Mistrust': The Politics of Form in Representations of Northern Ireland produced by the 'Troubles' Thriller	109
	Sam Hanna Bell, 1798 and the Death of Protestant Radicalism	116
	Bateman and Mendoza: From Belfast to Barcelona	122
	Science and Irish Identity: The Relevance of Science Studies for Irish Studies	133
	Island Women: Comparing Irish and Caribbean Writers	141
	The Irish Language and Politics: National Identity or Elite Instrument?	148
	Dissidence and Desire in Frank McGuinness' Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme and Carthaginians	155
	Who Spoke of '98? An Archaeology of Social Memory	163
	Migrancy and Cultural Disappearance	170
	Diaspora, Empire, and the Religious Geography of Victorian Social Relations in Wilde's Fairy Tales	183
	'A Quaking Sod': Ireland, Empire and Children's Literary Culture	189
	Between the Sheets: Material Production and Cultural Politics in the Irish Periodical Press, 1922-58	197
	Did the Nuncio Wear Slippers?: Hubert Butler and Protestant Dissent in 50s Ireland	205
	Angry Laments and Grieving Postcoloniality	215
	Transformations in the Representation of the Nation as Woman	224
	Myth, Self and Nation: The Case of James Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson	231
	Feminism, Postmodernism and the Subjects of Irish and Women's Studies	243
	Irish Cultural Studies?	251
	Against Irish Studies: Reading Austin Clarke and His Critics	255
	Index	261