Luke Gibbons, National University of Ireland, IrelandNiall Gillespie, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandRichard Haslam, Saint Joseph's University, USADiane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University, USA Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandW.J. McCormack, writerAnne Markey, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandChristina Morin, University of Limerick, IrelandJim Shanahan, St. Patrick's College, IrelandElizabeth Tilley, NUI Galway, Ireland

'...this fine collection of essays, brought together by Gillespie and Morin, suggests that few genres have generated as much debate in Irish literary studies in recent years as the Gothic.' - Sinead Sturgeon, Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: De-limiting the Irish Gothic; Christina Morin and Niall Gillespie 1. Theorizing 'Gothic' in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Christina Morin 2. The Irish Protestant Gothic Imaginary: The Cultural Contexts for the Gothic Chapbooks, published by Bennett Dugdale, 1800-1805; Diane Long Hoeveler 3. Irish Jacobin Gothic, c. 1796-1825; Niall Gillespie 4. Suffering Rebellion: Irish Gothic Fiction, 1799-1830; Jim Shanahan 5. The Gothicization of Irish Folklore; Anne Markey 6. Maturin's Catholic Heirs: Expanding the Limits of Irish Gothic; Richard Haslam 7. J.S. Le Fanu, Gothic, and the Irish Periodical; Elizabeth Tilley 8. 'Whom We Name Not': The House by the Churchyard and its Annotation; W.J. Mc Cormack 9. Muscling Up: Bram Stoker and Irish Masculinity in The Snake's Pass; Jarlath Killeen 10. 'The Old Far West and the New': Bram Stoker, Race, and Manifest Destiny; Luke Gibbons Index