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Book SynopsisExamines the extent and nature of Irish social and cultural difference
Table of Contents1. Introduction – Tom Inglis
2. Irishness and nationalisms – Siniša Maleševic´
3. Where is Ireland in the worlds of capitalism? – Seán Ó Riain
4. Just another bubble economy? – Denis O’Hearn
5. A Catholic vision of Ireland – Bryan Fanning
6. The Irish political elite – Kieran Allen
7. The Irish family – different or not? – Tony Fahey
8. Single women in story and society – Anne Byrne
9. The Irish body – Tom Inglis
10. Sexual abuse and the Catholic Church – Marie Keenan
11. The difference between Irish and American Catholicism – Michele Dillon
12. Postcolonial legacies and the Irish psyche – Geraldine Moane
13. Thinking about Ireland and the Irish diaspora – Mary J. Hickman
14. Being Irish and male in Britain – Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood
15. The new Irish and the Irish nation – Bryan Fanning
16. Conflict and reconciliation in Northern Ireland – Joseph Ruane
17. Irish language, Irish nation – Iarfhlaith Watson
18. The difference of Irish music – Martin Dowling
19. The GAA and the sporting Irish – Katie Liston
20. Feeling at home in contemporary Ireland – Ethel Crowley
21. Searching for and explaining difference – Tom Inglis
22. A new vision of Irish studies – Linda Connolly
23. Irish studies between the past and the future – Michael G. Cronin
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