Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Irish neutrality: from nationalism to postnationalism -- Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet: Hubert Butler's perspective on community, nationalism and a globalised Ireland / Billy Gray -- The search for global Irishness in Nuala O'Faolain / Miriam O'Kane Mara -- Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic games in Rocky road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the ash / Sean Crosson -- "Who put the ball in the English net": the privatisation of Irish postnationalism in Dermot Bolger's In high Germany / Damien Shortt -- The postmodern promise of Robert Macliam Wilson's fiction / Matt Mcguire -- Gocal identities in a postnationalist Ireland as reflected through contemporary Irish poetry / Carmen Zamorano Llena -- Divided subjectivities and modern Irish masculinities / David Cregan-- "Scattering us like seed": Dermot Bolger's postnationalist Ireland / Paula Murphy -- "What ish my nation": nationalism and neo-nationalism in the novels of Colm Tóibín / Grace Tighe Ledwidge -- The postnationalist crisis: theatrical representations of Irish anxiety, identity and narrative in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones / Catherine Rees -- Elegy and celebration: landscape, place and dwelling in the poetry of moya Cannon / Irene Gilsenan Nordin -- The inner life of the nation: religion, the otherworld and death in contemporary Irish drama / Ulf Dantanus.

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