How, then, could post-colonial theory be of use in the context of Irish culture? The dangers of the application of a politically-orientated cultural theory in an Irish context are perhaps more immediately …

The impact of theory, or specifically the advent of an Irish franchise of postcolonial studies, has produced a contentious, as well as progressive, commerce of ideas and theoretical paradigms within …

Therefore the appearance of a wave of writing that seeks to use post-colonial theory as an explanatory heuristic for twentieth-century Irish culture is both important and exciting.2 In the hands of …

Ireland and Irishness: The Contextuality of Postcolonial Identity The porous boundaries of postcolonial studies are put to the test in examining the Irish question and its position in postcolonial studies. …

The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory - was Ireland a colony? - is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every …

I have explored the joint phenomenon of changes in Irish society and the rise of postcolonial theory in the Irish academy, focusing on the relationship between narrative and its context, on definitions and …

Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes of literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish studies. A range of internal factors complicates readings of …