This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology.

Cassandra S. Tully de Lope is currently researching while working as a civil servant teaching in an Educational Centre for Adults in Extremadura (Spain). Formerly, she worked as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Extremadura where she received her PhD with cum laude distinction in Contemporary Irish Literature and Masculinity in 2022.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Irish identity, language, and masculinity

Chapter 3. Interdisciplinary methodologies for literary studies

Chapter 4. The Corpus of Male Irish Writers

Chapter 5. Introduction to corpus analysis and initial results

Chapter 6. Male Vocatives and Male Hierarchy

Chapter 7. Adverbs and Verbs of Speech to imply domination

Chapter 8. Body Language, hypermasculinity, and other models of masculinity

Chapter 9. Conclusion