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General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Ireland in Theory; C. Connolly.- Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; S. Deane.- The Virtual Reality of Irish Fairy Legend; A. Bourke.- 'Bog Queens': The Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney; P. Coughlan.- To Bind the Northern to the Southern Stars: Field Day in Derry and Dublin; S. Richards.- Narratives of the Nation: Fact, Fiction and Irish Cinema; L. Gibbons.- Changing the Question; T. Eagleton.- Misplaced Ideas?: Colonialism, Location and Dislocation in Irish Studies; J. Cleary.- The Nineteenth-Century Novel; S. Kilfeather.- Tantalized by Progress; C. Morash.- The Politics of Poetic Form; C. Wills.- 'In the Midst of all this Dross': Establishing the Grounds of Dissent; R. Kirkland.- Subalternity and Gender: Problems of Post-Colonial Irishness; C. Graham.- The Spirit of the Nation; D. Lloyd.- Summaries and Notes.- Further Reading.- Index.