PRESCRIBING OUR FUTURE

By BARBARA JACKSON

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: EXAMINING OUR PAST AND SHAPING OUR FUTURE ROOTS OF MODERNITY: PRIMITIVISM AND PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND REIMAGINING IRELAND THROUGH EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH EYES UNREGENERATE SPIRITS: GEORGE EGERTON AND ELIZABETH BOWEN’S RADICAL IRISH FICTION DUBLIN, 1913: IRISH MODERNISM AND INTERNATIONAL MODERNISM ‘TO SLEEP IS SAFE, TO DREAM IS DANGEROUS’: CATHOLICISM ON STAGE IN INDEPENDENT IRELAND FROM BORSTAL BOY AND GINGER MAN TO KITTY STOBLING: A BRIEF LOOK BACK AT THE 1950S SEXUAL DISSIDENTS AND QUEER SPACE IN NORTHERN IRISH FICTION ‘KICKING BISHOP BRENNAN UP THE ARSE’: CATHOLICISM, DECONSTRUCTION AND POSTMODERNITY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH CULTURE IRISH MULTICULTURAL FICTION: METAPHORS OF MISCEGENATION AND INTERRACIAL ROMANCE 10 ADVERTISING, MEDIA AND IRISH IDENTITY: REFLECTIONS ON THE CELTIC TIGER PERIOD O’CONNELL STREET AS THE ‘NATION’S MAIN STREET’: THE IMAGE OF IRELAND’S MODERNITY AND IRELANTIS 12 CLEARING THE AIR: IRISH WOMEN POETS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE NOMADIC ARTISTS, SMOOTH SPACES AND LINES OF FLIGHT: READING COLUM MCCANN THROUGH JOYCE, AND DELEUZE AND GUATTARI 14 MULTICULTURALISM AND THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF THE CELTIC TIGER: REDEFINITIONS OF IRISHNESS IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND INSIDE OUT: TIME AND PLACE IN GLOBAL IRELAND