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Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Wanda Balzano

    1. Wake Forest University, USA

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  2. Anne Mulhall

    1. University College Dublin, Ireland

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  3. Moynagh Sullivan

    1. Department of English (NUI), Maynooth, Ireland

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  5. Aporia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. ‘Let’s Get Killed’: Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland

      • Colin Graham
      Pages 171-183

    3. Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation

      • Moynagh Sullivan
      Pages 184-196

    4. Quare Theory

      • Noreen Giffney
      Pages 197-209
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About this book

This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture, from Fanfic to Orange Parades; from boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary; from celebrity tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality and race shape Irish 'postmodernity'.

Reviews

'The 'new Ireland' so often made the subject of political commentary and economic reports still wants for engaged critical commentary. Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture theorises Celtic Tiger Ireland in all its cultural complexity. A fresh, lively and challenging collection.' - Claire Connolly, Cardiff University

'This remarkable collection of essays robustly displays the exciting diversity of contemporary Irish studies' engagement with global popular culture. Interrogating gender, genre, race, space, and migration, this volume brilliantly reassesses the Irish academy's ideological and theoretical commitments.' - Professor Cheryl Herr, Department of English, University of Iowa

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wake Forest University, USA

    Wanda Balzano

  • University College Dublin, Ireland

    Anne Mulhall

  • Department of English (NUI), Maynooth, Ireland

    Moynagh Sullivan

About the editors

CLAIRE BRACKEN IRCHSS doctoral candidate, School of English, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English Literature and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas, Austin, USA SUZANNA CHAN Research Associate, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, UK KATHRYN CONRAD Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas, USA MIKE CRONIN Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programs, Boston College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland NOREEN GIFFNEY Faculty of Arts Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland COLIN GRAHAM lectures in English at NUI, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland JEFFERSON HOLDRIDGE teaches Irish literature in the English Department at Wake Forest University, USA AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA IRCHSS doctoral candidate, School of English, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland GERARDINE MEANEY Director, Institute for Irish Studies, University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland DIANE NEGRA Senior Lecturer, School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK KATHERINE O'DONNELL Head of Women's Studies, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland EMMA RADLEY Doctoral candidate and teacher at the School of English, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland MAUREEN T. REDDY Professor of English and Women's Studies, Rhode Island College, USA CHRISTOPHER SMITH Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology and Director of the Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University, USA

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