Colin Graham and Willy Maley, ‘Introduction: Irish Studies and Postcolonial Theory’ 149; Andrew Murphy, Ireland and Ante/anti-colonial Theory’ [153]; Richard Kirkland, ‘Rhetoric and (Mis)recognitions: Reading Casement’ [163]; Aidan Arrowsmith, ‘Debating Diasporic Identity: Nostalgia, (Post) Nationalism, Critical Traditionalism’ [173]; Tom Herron, ‘Spectaculars: Seamus Heaney and the Limits of Mimicry’ [183]; Breda Gray, ‘Longings and Belongings - Gendered Spatialities of Irishness’ [193]; Gerry Smyth, ‘Irish Studies, Postcolonial Theory and the "New" Essentialism [211]; Ellen-Raissa Jackson, ‘Gender, Violence and Hybridity: Reading the Postcolonial in Three Irish Novels’ [221].

REVIEW ARTICLES: Ann Saddlemyer, ‘An almost psychedelic impact’: Jack Yeats, review of Jack Yeats by Bruce Arnold. Bruce Stewart, ‘Archive Fever in the Grad. School’, review of Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook ed. Alexander Gonzalez [233].

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