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1. Introduction: the Irish writer and the world; 2. The fall of thestage Irishman; 3. Storytelling: the Gaelic tradition; 4. Writers inquarantine? - the case for Irish studies; 5. Synge, Yeats and Bardic poetry;6. George Moore's Gaelic Law Party; 7. The flowering tree: modern poetry inIrish; 8. On national culture; 9. White skins, black masks: Celticism andNegritude; 10. From nationalism to liberation; 11. The war against the past;12. The elephant of revolutionary forgetfulness; 13. Reinventing England; 14.Museums and learning; 15. Joyce's Ellmann, Ellmann's Joyce; 16.Multiculturalism: the strange death of Liberal Europe; 17. The Celtic Tiger:a cultural history; 18. The city in Irish culture; 19. Strangers in their owncountry: multiculturalism in Ireland.