Modern Irish Autobiography

Chapter 1 Introduction: Autobiography and the Irish Cultural Moment

Chapter 2 ‘With a Heroic Life and a Governing Mind’: Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalist Autobiography

Chapter 3 Creating the Self, Recreating the Nation: The Politics of Irish Literary Autobiography from Moore to Behan

Chapter 5 Pilgrimage to the Self: Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Irish Women

Chapter 6 ‘Loss, Return, and Restitution’: Autobiography and Irish Diasporic Subjectivity

Chapter 7 Breaking the Silence: Emigration, Gender and the Making of Irish Cultural Memory

Chapter 8 Twentieth-Century Gaelic Autobiography: From lieux de mémoire to Narratives of Self-invention

Chapter 9 ‘Drawing the Line and Making the Tot’: Aspects of Irish Protestant Life Writing

Chapter 10 Fighting Without Guns?: Political Autobiography in Contemporary Northern Ireland

Chapter 11 ‘Voice Itself’: The Loss and Recovery of Boyhood in Irish Memoir

Chapter 12 Memoirs of an Autobiographer