Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Tony Tracy, Conn Holohan

      Pages 1-9

3. Queering Irish Masculinity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Clubs, Closets and Catwalks: GAA Stars and the Politics of Contemporary Irish Masculinity

      • Michael G. Cronin

      Pages 13-26

   3. Trans-formations of Gendered Identities in Ireland

      • Jeannine Woods

      Pages 27-41

   4. Compartmentalized Cosmopolitans: Constructions of Urban Space in Queer Irish Cinema

      • Allison Macleod

      Pages 42-57

4. Musical Masculinities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 58-58

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   2. From Men to Boys: Masculinity, Politics and the Irish Boy Band

      • Noel McLaughlin, Martin McLoone

      Pages 61-74

   3. ‘Irish Lads’ and English Rock: Musical Masculinities in the 1990s

      • Sean Campbell

      Pages 75-87

   4. ‘Oh Me, Oh My’: Masculinity, Popular Music and Reviving Joe Dolan

      • Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

      Pages 88-100

5. Masculinity in Drama and Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. A Postmodern Crisis of Irish Masculinity — Patrick McCabe’s Winterwood (2006)

      • Annabel Sheehan

      Pages 103-113

   3. From Violent Masculinities to Gynandricity? Sean O’Reilly’s Watermark (2005)

      • Fiona McCann

      Pages 114-125

   4. Sons of the Tiger: Performing Neoliberalism, Post-Feminism, and Masculinity in ‘Crisis’ in Contemporary Irish Theatre

      • Cormac O’Brien

      Pages 126-141

   5. Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Unwanted Reflections in The Boys of Foley Street (2012)

      • Miriam Haughton

      Pages 142-156

6. Onscreen Masculinity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 156-156

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   2. Body of Evidence: Performing Hunger

      • Emilie Pine

      Pages 159-170

   3. Othering Masculinity in the Multicultural Irish Thriller

      • Zélie Asava

      Pages 171-182

   4. From Symbol to Symptom — Changing Representations of Fatherhood in Recent Irish Cinema

      • Ruth Barton

      Pages 183-194

   5. ‘He’s a Good Soldier, He Cares About the Future’: Post-Feminist Masculinities, the IRA Man and ‘Peace’ in Northern Ireland

      • Sarah Edge

      Pages 195-206

Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond.

• cinema
• culture
• drama
• English literature
• gender
• politics
• space
• British and Irish Literature

• NUI Galway, Ireland

  Conn Holohan, Tony Tracy

Zélie Asava, Dundalk Institute of Technology Ruth Barton, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sean Campbell, Anglia Ruskin, UK Michael G Cronin, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Sarah Edge, University of Ulster, UK Miriam Haughton, NUI Galway, Ireland Conn Holohan, NUI Galway, Ireland Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, NUI Galway, Ireland Emilie Pine, University College Dublin, Ireland Diane Negra, University College Dublin, Ireland Allison Macleod, University of Glasgow, UK Fiona McCann, Université de Lille 3, France Martin McLoone, University of Ulster, UK Noel McLaughlin, Northumbria University, UK Barry Monahan, University College Cork, Ireland Cormac O'Brien, University College Dublin, Ireland Emilie Pine, University College Dublin, Ireland Annabel Sheehan, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Tony Tracy, NUI Galway, Ireland Jeannine Woods, NUI Galway, Ireland

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