Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

This groundbreaking collection reframes how popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture can be understood. The essays examine in unique ways, local and global Irishness, focusing on current versions of traditional culture and new modes of representation, how issues such as gender, sexuality, and race shape contemporary postmodernism in Ireland. From Fanfic to Orange Parades, from Boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Celebrity Tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association, the essays address new territories.

WANDA BALZANO is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Wake Forest University, USA. She has published essays on Beckett, Joyce, Irish women's writing in theory, religion, art, and film, and she has co-edited the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms'.

ANNE MULHALL is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Women in Irish Culture Project, based at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Her research focuses on critical theory, particularly feminist and queer theory, popular culture, women's writing in Ireland, and seventeenth-century literature and culture.

MOYNAGH SULLIVAN is Lecturer in the Department of English, National University of Ireland (NUI), Maynooth, Republic of Ireland. She has published a number of articles on gender, women's writing and Irish studies, and is co-editor of the special issue of The Irish Review on 'Feminisms', Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland.