This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative work in film, visual culture and the performing arts.

Scott Brewster is Director of English at the University of Salford.. Michael Parker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: Changing History: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990 - Michael Parker
II: Flying High? Culture, Criticism, Theory since 1990 - Scott Brewster
Part One: Drama
1. 'Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990' - Clare Wallace and Ondrej Pilny
2. 'Foregrounding the Body and Performance in Plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr - Maria Kurdi
3. 'The Stuff of Tragedy? Representations of Irish Political Leaders in the
'Haughey' Plays of Carr, Barry and Breen - Anthony Roche
4. 'New Articulations of Irishness and Otherness on the Contemporary Irish Stage' - Martine Pelletier
Part Two: Poetry
5. 'Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990' - Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh
6. Architectural Metaphors: Representations of the House in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní
Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke' - Lucy Collins
7. 'The places I go back to': Familiarisation and Making Strange in Seamus
Heaney's Later Poetry - Joanna Cowper
8. 'Neither Here Nor There': New Generation Northern Irish Poets (Sinead Morrissey
and Nick Laird) - Michael Parker
Part Three: Fiction
9. 'Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again': Irish Fiction and
Autobiography since 1990 - Liam Harte
10. Anne Enright and Postnationalism in the Contemporary Irish Novel - Heidi Hansson
11. Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels and John McGahern's Memoir - Stephen Regan
12. Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road - Vivian Valvano Lynch
13. 'What's it like being Irish?': The Return of the Repressed in Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer - Jennifer M. Jeffers
14. Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles - Neal Alexander
Part Four : After Words
15. 'What Do I Say When They Wheel out Their Dead?': The Representation of
Violence in Northern Irish Art - Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Notes on contributors
Index