15 ‘What’s it like being Irish?’

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. Part I Contexts
6. 1 Changing history 3
7. 2 Flying high? 16
8. Part II Drama
9. 3 Home places 43
10. 4 Women on the stage in the 1990s 59
11. 5 The stuff of tragedy? 79
12. 6 New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage 98
13. Part III Poetry
14. 7 Scattered and diverse 121
15. 8 Architectural metaphors 142
16. 9 ‘The places I go back to’ 160
17. 10 Neither here nor there 177
18. Part IV Fiction and autobiography
19. 11 ‘Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again’ 201
20. 12 Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel 216
21. 13 ‘Sacred spaces’ 232
22. 14 Secret gardens 250
23. 15 ‘What’s it like being Irish?’ 258
24. 16 Remembering to forget 272
25. Part V After words
26. 17 ‘What do I say when they wheel out their dead?’ 287
27. Bibliography 309
28. Index 327