This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular culture, from Fanfic to Orange Parades; from boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary; from celebrity tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality and race shape Irish 'postmodernity'.

Groundbreaking - opens up the field of contemporary Irish popular culture to critical analysis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: Race Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The Wire and Rescue Me; Gerardine Meaney Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann; Maureen T.Reddy Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as 'Blackness'; Suzanna Chan 'Is it for the Glamour?': Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association; Mike Cronin PART II: Space 'Our Nuns are not a Nation': Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name; Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland; Kathryn Conrad Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman; Wanda Balzano & Jefferson Holdridge PART III: Diaspora Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity; Christopher Smith St Patrick's Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York's Parade; Katherine O'Donnell Fantasy, Celebrity and 'Family Values' in High-end and Special Event Tourism in Ireland; Diane Negra A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women; Claire Bracken & Emma Radley PART IV: Aporia 'Let's Get Killed': Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland; Colin Graham Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation; Moynagh Sullivan Quare Theory; Noreen Giffney Camping up the Emerald Aisle: 'Queerness' in Irish Popular Culture; Anne Mulhall Index