Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

CLAIRE BRACKEN IRCHSS doctoral candidate, School of English, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English Literature and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas, Austin, USA SUZANNA CHAN Research Associate, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, UK KATHRYN CONRAD Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas, USA MIKE CRONIN Academic Director of the Centre for Irish Programs, Boston College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland NOREEN GIFFNEY Faculty of Arts Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland COLIN GRAHAM lectures in English at NUI, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland JEFFERSON HOLDRIDGE teaches Irish literature in the English Department at Wake Forest University, USA AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA IRCHSS doctoral candidate, School of English, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland GERARDINE MEANEY Director, Institute for Irish Studies, University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland DIANE NEGRA Senior Lecturer, School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK KATHERINE O'DONNELL Head of Women's Studies, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland EMMA RADLEY Doctoral candidate and teacher at the School of English, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland MAUREEN T. REDDY Professor of English and Women's Studies, Rhode Island College, USA CHRISTOPHER SMITH Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology and Director of the Vernacular Music Center, Texas Tech University, USA

This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture, from Fanfic to Orange Parades; from boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary; from celebrity tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality and race shape Irish 'postmodernity'.This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture, from Fanfic to Orange Parades; from boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary; from celebrity tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality and race shape Irish 'postmodernity'.