Introduction: culture, history and Irish identity
Synge, country and western: the myth of the west in Irish and American culture
Back projections: John Hinde and the new nostalgia
From kitchen sink to soap: drama and the serial form on Irish television
From megalith to megastore: broadcasting and Irish culture
Coming out of hibernation?: the myth of modernization in Irish culture
Labour and local history: the case of Jim Gralton, 1886-1945
The politics of silence: Anne Devlin, women and Irish cinema
'Lies that tell the truth': Maeve, history and Irish cinema
Narratives of no return: James Coleman's guaiRE
Identity without a centre: allegory, history and Irish nationalism
Race against time: racial discourse and Irish history
Montage, modernism and the city
Unapproved roads: Ireland and post-colonial identity.
