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Review Article: Post-colonial theory and modern Irish culture*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

James Livesey  and
Stuart Murray
James Livesey
Affiliation:
Department of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
Stuart Murray
Affiliation:
Department of English, Trinity College, Dublin
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 119 , May 1997 , pp. 452 - 461
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1997

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*

Inventing Ireland. By Declan Kiberd. Pp xii, 719. London: Jonathan Cape. 1995. £20; London & New York: Verso. 1996. £9.95 paperback edition.

Transformations in Irish culture. By Luke Gíbbons. Pp xvi, 214. Cork: Cork University Press. 1996. IR£14.95 paperback. (Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays 2).

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1 Such monuments include: Brown, Terence, Ireland: a social and cultural history, 1922–1979 (London, 1981)Google Scholar; Kearney, Richard, Transitions: narratives in modern Irish culture (Dublin & Manchester, 1988)Google Scholar; Lyons, F.S.L., Culture and anarchy in Ireland, 1890–1939 (Oxford, 1979 Google Scholar); McDonagh, Oliver, States of mind: a study of Anglo-Irish conflict, 1780–1980 (London, 1983)Google Scholar.

2 Other works that approach Irish culture from this perspective include: Cheng, Vincent John, Joyce, race and empire (Cambridge, 1995)Google Scholar; Nolan, Emer, James Joyce and nationalism (London, 1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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