This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative work in film, visual culture and the performing arts.
Acknowledgements Introduction I: Changing History: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 - Michael Parker II: Flying High? Culture, Criticism, Theory since 1990 - Scott Brewster Part One: Drama 1. 'Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990' - Clare Wallace and Ondrej Pilny 2. 'Foregrounding the Body and Performance in Plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr - Maria Kurdi 3. 'The Stuff of Tragedy? Representations of Irish Political Leaders in the 'Haughey' Plays of Carr, Barry and Breen - Anthony Roche 4. 'New Articulations of Irishness and Otherness on the Contemporary Irish Stage' - Martine Pelletier Part Two: Poetry 5. 'Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990' - Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh 6. Architectural Metaphors: Representations of the House in the Poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Vona Groarke' - Lucy Collins 7. 'The places I go back to': Familiarisation and Making Strange in Seamus Heaney's Later Poetry - Joanna Cowper 8. 'Neither Here Nor There': New Generation Northern Irish Poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) - Michael Parker Part Three: Fiction 9. 'Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again': Irish Fiction and Autobiography since 1990 - Liam Harte 10. Anne Enright and Postnationalism in the Contemporary Irish Novel - Heidi Hansson 11. Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels and John McGahern's Memoir - Stephen Regan 12. Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road - Vivian Valvano Lynch 13. 'What's it like being Irish?': The Return of the Repressed in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer - Jennifer M. Jeffers 14. Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles - Neal Alexander Part Four : After Words 15. 'What Do I Say When They Wheel out Their Dead?': The Representation of Violence in Northern Irish Art - Shane Alcobia-Murphy Notes on contributors Index -- .
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