Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-8

Section One - LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

pp 9-10

Chapter 1 - ‘A World of Hotels and Gaols’: Women Novelists and the Spaces of Irish Modernism, 1930–32

pp 11-22

Chapter 2 - ‘I Knew What It Meant / Not to Be at All’: Death and the (Modernist) Afterlife in the Work of Irish Women Poets of the 1940s

pp 23-34

Chapter 3 - ‘Whatever Is Given / Can Always Be Reimagined’: Seamus Heaney's Indefinite Modernism

pp 35-48

Chapter 4 - James Joyce and the Lives of Edna O'Brien

pp 49-60

Chapter 5 - Modernist Topoi and Late Modernist Praxis in Recent Irish Poetry (with Special Reference to the Work of David Lloyd)

pp 61-74

Chapter 6 - ‘Amach Leis!’ (Out with It!): Modernist Inheritances in Micheál Ó Conghaile's ‘Athair’ (‘Father’)

pp 75-90

Section Two - INSTITUTIONS, ART AND PERFORMANCE

pp 91-92

Chapter 7 - ‘Make a Letter Like a Monument’: Remnants of Modernist Literary Institutions in Ireland

pp 93-110

Chapter 8 - Storm in a Teacup: Irish Modernist Art

pp 111-124

Chapter 9 - ‘Particles of Meaning’: The Modernist Afterlife in Irish Design

pp 125-140

Chapter 10 - Animal Afterlives: Equine Legacies in Irish Visual Culture

pp 141-152

Chapter 11 - Choreographies of Irish Modernity: Alternative ‘Ideas of a Nation’ in Yeats's At the Hawk's Well and Ó Conchúir's Cure

pp 153-162

Chapter 12 - The Modernist Impulse in Irish Theatre: Anu Productions and the Monto

pp 163-174

Afterword: The Poetics of Perpetuation

pp 175-182

Notes on Contributors

pp 183-186

Index

pp 187-202