Table Of ContentIrish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture
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Irish Postmodernisms and
Popular Culture
Edited by
Wanda Balzano
Wake Forest University
Anne Mulhall
University College Dublin
and
Moynagh Sullivan
NUI, Maynooth
Selection and editorial matter
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Contents:Race — Space — Diaspora — Aporia.
1. Popular culture—Ireland.2. Postmodernism—Ireland.I.Balzano,
Wanda II.Mulhall,Anne III.Sullivan,Moynagh
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction xiii
Part I Race
1 Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in
The WireandRescue Me 3
Gerardine Meaney
2 Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle
andMetro Eireann 15
Maureen T. Reddy
3 Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading
White Loyalist Masculinity as ‘Blackness’ 26
Suzanna Chan
4 ‘Is it for the Glamour?’: Masculinity, Nationhood
and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of
the Gaelic Athletic Association 39
Mike Cronin
Part II Space
5 ‘Our Nuns are not a Nation’: Politicizing the
Convent in Irish Literature and Film 55
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
6 Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex,
No Money, No Name 74
Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
7 Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural
Photography in Northern Ireland 85
Kathryn Conrad
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8 Tracking the Luas between the Human
and the Inhuman 100
Wanda Balzano and Jefferson Holdridge
Part III Diaspora
9 Cinematic Constructions of Irish
Musical Ethnicity 115
Christopher Smith
10 St Patrick’s Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia
in New York’s Parade 128
Katherine O’Donnell
11 Fantasy, Celebrity and ‘Family Values’ in High-End
and Special Event Tourism in Ireland 141
Diane Negra
12 A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men
and Witty Women 157
Claire Bracken and Emma Radley
Part IV Aporia
13 ‘Let’s Get Killed’: Culture and Peace in
Northern Ireland 171
Colin Graham
14 Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and
Mothering the Nation 184
Moynagh Sullivan
15 Quare Theory 197
Noreen Giffney
16 Camping up the Emerald Aisle: ‘Queerness’ in
Irish Popular Culture 210
Anne Mulhall
Index 225
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to our friends, families, teachers and students for sharing
ideas, inspiration, commitment, support, advice and good humour with us
in the process of editing this book and over the years. Thanks to all our
colleagues, past and present, at NUI Maynooth, University College Dublin,
Wake Forest University, NUI Galway, and University College Cork. We should
like to thank in particular Marie-Louise Coolahan, Patricia Coughlan, Colin
Graham, Selina Guinness, Jeff Holdridge, Margaret Kelleher, Gerardine
Meaney and Cliona O Gallchóir. Amanda Bent’s organizationalmagic was
invaluable, as was her assistance with the cover design.
The editors and the publishers wish to thank the following for permission
to reprint material: Éire-Ireland for a revised version of Elizabeth Butler
Cullingford, ‘“Our Nuns Are Not a Nation”: Politicizing the Convent in
Irish Literature and Film’; Irish University Review for Maureen Reddy,
‘Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann’; and
The Irish Reviewfor a revised version of Moynagh Sullivan, ‘Boyz to Men’.
In the event that any copyright holders have been inadvertently over-
looked, the authors and publishers will make amends at the earliest
opportunity.
Thanks to the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Publications
Scheme for Research and Graduate Studies for an award to assist with
publishing costs; thanks also to Simon Coury, our indexer, and to Melanie
Blair, Jill Lake and Barbara Slater at Palgrave Macmillan for kind and
helpful support.
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