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Ireland and Cultural Theory

The Mechanics of Authenticity

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Colin Graham

    1. University of Huddersfield, UK

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  2. Richard Kirkland

    1. Keele University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Colin Graham, Richard Kirkland
    Pages 1-6

  3. ‘… maybe that’s just Blarney’: Irish Culture and the Persistence of Authenticity

    • Colin Graham
    Pages 7-28

  4. Decolonization and Criticism: Towards a Theory of Irish Critical Discourse

    • Gerry Smyth
    Pages 29-49

  5. ‘Pestilence on their backs, famine in their stomachs’: the Racial Construction of Irishness and the Irish in Victorian Britain

    • Jim Mac Laughlin
    Pages 50-76

  6. Gendered Irishness in Britain: Changing Constructions

    • Bronwen Walter
    Pages 77-98

  7. Breaking the ‘Cracked Mirror’: Binary Oppositions in the Culture of Contemporary Ireland

    • Shaun Richards
    Pages 99-118

  8. Troubles, Terminus and The Treaty

    • Lance Pettitt
    Pages 119-135

  9. Reading Responsibility in Castle Rackrent

    • Claire Connolly
    Pages 136-161

  10. ‘Could anyone write it?’: Place in Tom Paulin’s Poetry

    • Eamonn Hughes
    Pages 162-192

  11. The Body’s in the Post: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Dispersed Body

    • Tom Herron
    Pages 193-209

  12. Questioning the Frame: Hybridity, Ireland and the Institution

    • Richard Kirkland
    Pages 210-228

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 229-249
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About this book

Ireland and Cultural Theory is a unique and timely collection offering the first major assessment of how theoretical readings of 'Ireland' and Irish culture have begun to question the grounds of debate in Irish studies. Contributions engage with the concept of the 'authentic' in Irish culture through analyses of film, television and literature, emigration, and institutional critical practice. This lively and challenging volume will be of interest to lecturers and students in the field of cultural studies, Irish studies and critical theory.

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'This book is a timely provocation to rethink our accepted notions of Irishness and Britishness in the light of recent debates in literary theory, gender research and the postcolonial controversy. A pioneering publication at the cutting edge of contemporary cultural studies' - Richard Kearney, Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin, author of Postnationalist Ireland

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Huddersfield, UK

    Colin Graham

  • Keele University, UK

    Richard Kirkland

About the editors

CLAIRE CONNOLLY Lecturer, School of English Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff TOM HERRON Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen EAMONN HUGHES Lecturer, School of English, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland JIM MACLAUGHLIN Political Geographer, University College Cork LANCE PETTITT Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill SHAUN RICHARDS Head of Literature, Staffordshire University GERRY SMYTH is currently working on a book on contemporary Irish fiction BRONWEN WALTER Senior Lecturer in Geography, Anglia Polytechnic University

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