A History of Irish Modernism

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

Introduction: Irish modernism, from emergence to emergency Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby; Part I. Revivals: 1. Gothic revivals: the Fin De Siècle, Irish modernism, and the heritage of Wilde and Stoker John Paul Riquelme; 2. Standish O'Grady and the historical imagination of Irish modernism Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby; 3. Yeats, the Abbey and theatrical modernism Christopher Morash; 4. J. M. Synge: late Romantic or proto-modernist? Nicholas Grene; 5. Internal others: cultural debate and counter-revival Ronan McDonald; Part II. Revolutions: 6. Naturalism and the literary politics of Irish modernist fiction Simon Joyce; 7. Towards a modernism of the book: from Dun Emer to Shakespeare and Company Clare Hutton; 8. Rebellious devotion: Catholicism and the limits of modernism Michael Cronin; 9. Irish modernism: the European influence Enda Duffy; 10. Yeats and the revolutionary poetics of age Michael Wood; 11. Material modernism: an Irish case, circa 1921 Nicholas Allen; Part III. New States: 12. From Whiteboys to white nationalism: Joyce and Irish populism Joseph Valente; 13. Sean O'Casey's late modernism: gender, race, and disabled bodies on the Irish expressionist stage Paige Reynolds; 14. Feeling disaffection: forms of estrangement in Irish fiction Derek Hand; 15. Atlantic archipelagos: the Irish American ecologies of late modernism John Brannigan; 16. A disruptive modernist: Kate O'Brien and Irish women's writing Gerardine Meaney; 17. After Yeats: local, regional, and transatlantic modernisms Adrienne Leavy; Part IV. Emergenc(i)es: 18. Irish writing and minor language modernism Barry McCrea; 19. Time made audible: Irish stations and radio modernism Damien Keane; 20. 'No Irishness intended': the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Thomas MacGreevy, and Samuel Beckett Luke Gibbons; 21. Was The Bell modernist? Frank Shovlin; 22. Samuel Beckett, late modernism, and the paradox of distance Emilie Morin; 23. 1966: the binary conditions of Irish architectural modernism Ellen Rowley.