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The Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print; this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, chosen to give a flavour of the diversity of the series. It showcases the work of a talented array of established and emerging scholars currently working in Irish Studies.

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To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological order, it begins with an essay by Luke Gibbons tracing the roots of modernity from the middle decades of the nineteenth century and concludes with Michael Cronin´s discussion of time and place in global Ireland. In between, the reader will find a rich variety of essays on literary criticism, poetry, drama, photography, modernity, advertising, visual culture, immigration and feminism.

This is a collection that will appeal to anyone with a scholarly or personal interest in the cultural forces that have shaped modern Ireland. It is also a testament to the rude good health of contemporary Irish studies, showcasing the work of a talented array of established and emerging scholars currently working in the area.

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CONTENTS: David Lloyd: Preface - Eamon Maher/Christabel Scaife: Introduction: Examining Our Past and Shaping Our Future - Luke Gibbons: Roots of Modernity: Primitivism and Primitive Accumulation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Catherine Maignant: Reimagining Ireland through Early Twentieth-Century French Eyes - Tina O´Toole: Unregenerate Spirits: George Egerton and Elizabeth Bowen´s Radical Irish Fiction - Jean-Michel Rabaté: Dublin, 1913: Irish Modernism and International Modernism - Victor Merriman: "To Sleep is Safe, To Dream is Dangerous": Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland - Gerald Dawe: From Borstal Boy and Ginger Man to Kitty Stobling : A Brief Look Back at the 1950s - Caroline Magennis: Sexual Dissidents and Queer Space in Northern Irish Fiction - Eugene O´Brien: "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse": Catholicism, Deconstruction and Postmodernity in Contemporary Irish Culture - Jason King: Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance - Neil O´Boyle: Advertising, Media and Irish Identity: Reflections on the Celtic Tiger Period - Jennifer Way: O´Connell Street as the "Nation´s Main Street": The Image of Ireland´s Modernity and Irelantis - Lucy Collins: Clearing the Air: Irish Women Poets and Environmental Change - Sylvie Mikowski: Nomadic Artists, Smooth Spaces and Lines of Flight: Reading Colum McCann through Joyce, and Deleuze and Guattari - Carmen Zamorano Llena: Multiculturalism and the Dark Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in Contemporary Ireland - Michael Cronin: Inside Out: Time and Place in Global Ireland.

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