Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Irish Modernisms in the Plural Paul Fagan (Salzburg University, Austria) , John Greaney (University of Pennsylvania, USA) , Tamara Radak (University of Vienna, Austria) Part 1 Contested Canons: Testing the Limits of Irish Modernism 1. Explaining Ourselves: Hannah Berman, Jewish Nationalism and Irish Modernism John Brannigan (University College Dublin, Ireland) 2. A Forgotten Irish Modernist: Ethel Colburn Mayne Elke D'hoker (KU Leuven, Belgium) 3. Melancholy Modernism: The Loss of the Irish Woman Poet 1930-1950 Lucy Collins (University College Dublin, Ireland) 4. Death and the Nonhuman in Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction Maureen O'Connor (University College Cork, Ireland) 5. The Languages of Irish Modernism: Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Samuel Beckett Eoin Byrne (NUI Galway, Ireland) Part 2 Corporeal Texts, Discursive Bodies: Biopolitical Irish Modernisms 6. Irish Skin: The Epidermiology of Modernism Barry Sheils (Durham University, UK) 7. Irish Modernism and Revivalism: A Queer History? Seán Hewitt (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 8.
'Survival of the Unfittest': Synge, Yeats and the Rhetoric of Health Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (University of Oxford, UK) 9. Rhetorics of Sacrifice: Sex, Gender and the Death Penalty in James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and the 1916 Generation Katherine Ebury (Sheffield University, UK) 10. 'The ranks of respectability': Prostitution, Citizenship & the Free State in the Novels of Liam O'Flaherty Laura Lovejoy (University College Cork, Ireland) 11. James Joyce and Samuel Beckett: Blind Bards in the Age of Silent Cinema Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (Bristol University, UK) Part 3 Minor/Major Forms: Intermedial Irish Modernisms 12. Letters and Weak Theory in Irish Modernism Maebh Long (University of Waikato, New Zealand) 13. The Machine in the (Holy) Ghost: Anti-Science Literature, Genre Fiction and Irish Modernism, 1890-1940 Jack Fennell (University of Limerick, Ireland) 14.
Mechanical Animals, Flying Men and Educated Monkeys: Technology & Modernity in the Comic Strips of Jack B. Yeats Michael Connerty (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland) 15. 'the funeral of one's past': Thomas MacGreevy as Ireland's Modernist War Poet Daniel Curran (Maynooth University, Ireland) 16. The Full Little Jug: Flann O'Brien and the Irish Public Sphere Catherine Flynn (UC, Berkeley, USA) Bibliography Index.