Introduction negotiating texts and contexts
Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development
The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf
The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes
"You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners
The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners
"Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness
"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture
"Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre
Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local
"T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.