Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

Part I. Race

1. Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue Me
Gerardine Meaney

2. Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann
Maureen T. Reddy

3. Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as ‘Blackness’
Suzanna Chan

4. ‘Is it for the Glamour?’: Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Mike Cronin

Part II. Space

5. ‘Our Nuns are not a Nation’: Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

6. Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name
Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka

7. Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland
Kathryn Conrad

8. Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman
Wanda Balzano, Jefferson Holdridge

Part III. Diaspora

9. Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity
Christopher Smith

10. St Patrick’s Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York’s Parade
Katherine O’Donnell

11. Fantasy, Celebrity and ‘Family Values’ in High-End and Special Event Tourism in Ireland
Diane Negra

12. A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women
Claire Bracken, Emma Radley

Part IV. Aporia

13. ‘Let’s Get Killed’: Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland
Colin Graham

14. Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation
Moynagh Sullivan

15. Quare Theory
Noreen Giffney

16. Camping up the Emerald Aisle: ‘Queerness’ in Irish Popular Culture
Anne Mulhall

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Cultural Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Postmodern Philosophy