From the Book - First Harvard University Press edition.
Introduction : after Ireland?
Interchapter. A neutral Ireland?
'Gaeldom is over' : The bell
A talking corpse? : Sáirséal agus Dill
A parrot in Ringsend : Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The country girls
Frank O'Connor : a mammy's boy
Interchapter. Secularization
Richard Power and The hungry grass
Emigration once again : Friel's Philadelphia
Interchapter. Northern troubles
Seamus Heaney : the death of ritual and the ritual of death
Interchapter. Europeanization
The art of science : Banville's Doctor Copernicus
The double vision of Michael Hartnett
Brian Friel's Faith healer
Theatre as opera : The Gigli concert
Frank McGuinness and Observe the sons
Derek Mahon's lost worlds
Interchapter. Irish language
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill : Pharaoh's daughter
Interchapter. Women's movement
Eavan Boland : Outside history
John McGahern's Amongst women
Between first and third world : Friel's Lughnasa
Roddy Doyle : Paddy Clarke ha ha ha
Interchapter. Peace comes dropping slow
Seamus Deane : Reading in the dark
Reading Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
Making history : Joseph O'Connor
Fallen nobility : McGahern's Rising sun
Conor McPherson : The seafarer
Kate Thompson and The new policeman
Conclusion : going global?
