National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature

Chapter 1 The Imperfect as a Site of Contestation in Contemporary Ireland

Chapter 2 What Plenty Laid Bare! Ireland’s Harsh Confrontation with Itself: 1999–2014

Chapter 3 Satiric Insights into Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: The Case of Peter Cunningham’s Capital Sins

Chapter 4 Understanding the Imperfect in John McGahern’s First and Last Novels

Chapter 5 Hard Times and Sibling Songs: Sibling Relations in Contemporary Irish Literature

Chapter 7 The Fallen Sex Revisited: Imperfect Celibacy in Mary Rose Callaghan’s A Bit of a Scandal

Chapter 8 Form, Deformity: On Pathology and Poetics in Paul Muldoon

Chapter 9 Imperfection as a Chance: Matrixial Borderspaces in Anne Enright

Chapter 10 Monstrous Mothers and Mutant Others: Bodies out of Place in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero

Chapter 11 Changing Places: The Imperfect City in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Chapter 12 Irish Drinking Culture on the Screen

Chapter 13 Treading the Boards? Be Sure to Put on the Right Brogues! The Actor’s Search for the Perfect Irish Accent

Chapter 14 ‘Absolutely Imperfect’: In Conversation with Lia Mills