Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture

Zélie Asava, Dundalk Institute of Technology Ruth Barton, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandSean Campbell, Anglia Ruskin, UKMichael G Cronin, NUI Maynooth, IrelandSarah Edge, University of Ulster, UKMiriam Haughton, NUI Galway, IrelandConn Holohan, NUI Galway, IrelandMéabh Ní Fhuartháin, NUI Galway, IrelandEmilie Pine, University College Dublin, IrelandDiane Negra, University College Dublin, IrelandAllison Macleod, University of Glasgow, UK Fiona McCann, Université de Lille 3, FranceMartin McLoone, University of Ulster, UK Noel McLaughlin, Northumbria University, UKBarry Monahan, University College Cork, Ireland Cormac O'Brien, University College Dublin, IrelandEmilie Pine, University College Dublin, Ireland Annabel Sheehan, NUI Maynooth, IrelandTony Tracy, NUI Galway, Ireland Jeannine Woods, NUI Galway, Ireland

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Tony Tracy and Conn Holohan PART I: QUEERING IRISH MASCULINITY 1. Clubs, Closets and Catwalks: GAA Stars and the Politics of Contemporary Irish Masculinity; Michael G Cronin 2. Trans-Formations of Gendered Identities in Ireland; Jeannine Woods 3. Compartmentalized Cosmopolitans: Constructions of Urban Space in Queer Irish Cinema; Allison Macleod PART II: MUSICAL MASCULINITIES 4. From Men to Boys: Masculinity, Politics and the Irish Boy Band; Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone 5. 'Irish Lads' and English Rock: Musical Masculinities in the 1990s; Sean Campbell 6. 'Oh Me, Oh My': Reviving Joe Dolan and Gendering Performance; Méabh Ní Fhuartháin PART III: MASCULINITY IN DRAMA AND LITERATURE 7. A Postmodern Crisis of Irish Masculinity: Patrick McCabe's Winterwood ; Annabel Sheehan 8. From Violent Masculinites to Gynandricity? Watermark by Sean O'ReillY; Fiona McCann 9. Sons of the Tiger: Performing Neoliberalism, Post-feminism, and Masculinity in 'Crisis' in Contemporary Irish Theatre; Cormac O'Brien 10. Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Unwanted Reflections in The Boys of Foley Street ; Miriam Haughton PART IV: ONSCREEN MASCULINITY 11. Body of Evidence: Performing Hunger ; Emilie Pine 12. Othering Masculinity in the Multicultural Irish Thriller; Zélie Asava 13. From Symbol to Symptom – Changing Representations of Fatherhood in Recent Irish Cinema; Ruth Barton 14. 'He's a Good Soldier, He Cares about the Future': Post-Feminist Masculinities, the IRA Man and 'Peace' in Northern Ireland; Sarah Edge 15. Pure Male: Masculine Spaces and Stasis in Eugene O'Brien's Pure Mule (2005); Barry Monahan PART V: AFTER THE TIGER: GENDER AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 16. Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland; Diane Negra