Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive collection of essays makes an innovative contribution to current, and often contentious, debate within Irish studies.

Alderson, David; Becket, Fiona; Brewster, Scott; Crossman, Virginia

Notes on contributors, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I: History, 1. Introduction, 2. Nationalism and revisionism: ambiviolences and dissensus, 3. 'The Whole People of Ireland': patriotism, national identity and nationalism in eighteenth-century Ireland, 4. Re-writing the Famine: witnessing in crisis, PART II: Gender, 5. Introduction, 6. Wild(e) Ireland, 7. A theatrical matrilineage?: problems of the familial in the drama of Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr, 8. Gender, citizenship and the state in Ireland, 1922-1990, 9. Gender, nation, excess: reading Hush-a-Bye Baby, PART III: Space, 10. Introduction, 11. M/otherlands: literature, gender, diasporic identity, 12. Citizens of its hiding place: gender and urban space in Irish women's poetry, 13. Mapping carceral space: territorialisation, resistance and control in Northern Ireland's women's prisons, 14. Listening to the silences: defining the language and the place of a new Ireland, Index