Gerry Smyth is a lecturer in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University, teaching colonialism, post-colonialism and contemporary Irish fiction. He has published on Joyce, Arnold, Irish traditional music, and contemporary Irish cultural criticism.

'A valuable and groundbreaking book'

• IntroductionPart 1: Decolonisation and Criticism 1. The Modes of DecolonisationNationalism and DecolonisationLiberal and Radical DecolonisationDecolonisation and PoststructuralismDecolonisation in Ireland 2. Culture, Criticism and DecolonisationCriticism and CrisisThe Institution of Criticism Decolonisation and Criticism 3. Critical EncountersNeo-Classicism and Celticism Anglo-Ireland Under Pressure Irish Politics, English Culture Challenges to Cultural Nationalism Part 2: Literary Criticism in Ireland 1948-584. Criticism in the Thin Society 5. The PeriodicalThe Moment of Kavanagh's Weekly Variations on the Bell The Professionals Affiliated Periodicals 6. The Scope of Literary CriticismA Note on Censorship –The University – Anthologies 7. The BookThe Life and Culture in Ireland Series –Truth and Method –An Irish Tradition? Notes Bibliography Index

Gerry Smyth is a lecturer in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University, teaching colonialism, post-colonialism and contemporary Irish fiction. He has published on Joyce, Arnold, Irish traditional music, and contemporary Irish cultural criticism.

'A valuable and groundbreaking book'

• IntroductionPart 1: Decolonisation and Criticism 1. The Modes of DecolonisationNationalism and DecolonisationLiberal and Radical DecolonisationDecolonisation and PoststructuralismDecolonisation in Ireland 2. Culture, Criticism and DecolonisationCriticism and CrisisThe Institution of Criticism Decolonisation and Criticism 3. Critical EncountersNeo-Classicism and Celticism Anglo-Ireland Under Pressure Irish Politics, English Culture Challenges to Cultural Nationalism Part 2: Literary Criticism in Ireland 1948-584. Criticism in the Thin Society 5. The PeriodicalThe Moment of Kavanagh's Weekly Variations on the Bell The Professionals Affiliated Periodicals 6. The Scope of Literary CriticismA Note on Censorship –The University – Anthologies 7. The BookThe Life and Culture in Ireland Series –Truth and Method –An Irish Tradition? Notes Bibliography Index