Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.
Preface Gender and Nation: the Gaelicization of Irish Manhood Instruments of God's Will: Masculinity in Early Irish Film Institutional Boys: Adolescent Masculinity and Coming of Age in Ireland's 'Architecture of Containment' Family Guy: Detonating the Irish Nuclear Family It's Good to Talk? Language, Loquaciousness and Silence among Irish Cinema's Men in Crisis Troubled Bodies, Troubled Minds: Republicanism, Bromance and 'House-Training' the 'Men of Violence' New Lads or Protest Masculinities? Underclass, Criminal and Socially- Marginalised Men in the Films of the 1990s and 2000s Cool Hibernia: 'New Men', Metrosexuals, Celtic Soul and Queer Fellas Conclusion
