Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A New England Called Ireland?

IRELAND--ENGLAND'S UNCONSCIOUS?

Interchapter

2. Oscar Wilde--The Artist as Irishman

3. John Bull's Other Islander--Bernard Shaw

ANGLO-IRELAND: THE WOMAN'S PART

Interchapter

4. Tragedies of Manners--Somerville and Ross

5. Lady Gregory and the Empire Boys

YEATS: LOOKING INTO THE LION'S FACE

Interchapter

6. Childhood and Ireland

7. The National Longing for Form

RETURN TO THE SOURCE?

Interchapter

8. Deanglicization

9. Nationality or Cosmopolitanism?

10. J. M. Synge--Remembering the Future

REVOLUTION AND WAR

Interchapter

11. Uprising

12. The Plebeians Revise the Uprising

13. The Great War and Irish Memory

WORLDS APART?

14. Ireland and the End of Empire

INVENTING IRELANDS

Interchapter

15. Writing Ireland, Reading England

16. Inventing Irelands

17. Revolt Into Style--Yeatsian Poetics

18. The Last Aisling--A Vision

19. James Joyce and Mythic Realism

SEXUAL POLITICS

Interchapter

20. Elizabeth Bowen--The Dandy in Revolt

21. Fathers and Sons

22. Mothers and Daughters

PROTESTANT REVIVALS

Interchapter

23. Protholics and Cathestants

24. Saint Joan--Fabian Feminist, Protestant Mystic

25. The Winding Stair

26. Religious Writing: Beckett and Others

UNDERDEVELOPMENT

Interchapter

27. The Periphery and the Centre

28. Flann O'Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth

29. The Empire Writes Back--Brendan Behan

30. Beckett's Texts of Laughter and Forgetting

31. Post-Colonial Ireland--"A Quaking Sod"

RECOVERY AND RENEWAL

Interchapter

32. Under Pressure--The Writer and Society 1960-90

33. Friel Translating

34. Translating Tradition

REINVENTING IRELAND

35. Imagining Irish Studies

Notes

Index