Publisher's Synopsis
CONTENTS:
Introduction by Aedeen Cremin
Politics and Government
??Precedents for Autonomous Welsh Government 1536-1653 by Peter R. Roberts
Politics in the Celtic World: Nineteenth-Century Cornwall by Ed Jaggard
Irish-Australians and Their Attitudes to the 1897 Federal Convention Election in New South Wales by Patrick M McCormack
Setting the Boundaries: Colonisation, Imperialism and National Identity in Scotland in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries by Sybil Jack
Contemporary Welsh Literature
??Apocalypse Now? Contemporary Welsh Poetry and Fiction: Fear and Hope in Conflict by John Rowlands
When Orality gives way to Literacy: Welsh Language Poetry and Prose at the turn of the Twentieth Century by Siôn Owen
Being Ecumenical with the Truth: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Twentieth-Century Wales by M. Wynn Thomas
Literature and Cultural Identity
??The 'both/and' Thought in Contemporary Irish Drama by Monica Randaccio
Ossian vs. Oisin: Sublime Cultural Identification in Macpherson's Ossianic Texts and W. B. Yeats' 'The Wanderings of Oisin' by Ken Monteith
Ossian and the Antipodes: the Macpherson Controversy and Some Australian Connections with It by Brian Taylor
James Macpherson - Romanticism, Authentication and Nationalism by Sophie Buck
To New Edinburgh via Glasgow? Political, Economic and Historical Machinations of Nineteeth-Century Highland Bagpipe Literature in Otago & Southland, New Zealand by Jennie Coleman
Politics and the Past
??900 Years of Mayhem: The Irish Legal Materials by Neil McLeod
From Bede to Bragg: the Politics of Literature about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne by Pamela O'Neill
Breton vitae and Political Need in the Cartulary of Sainte-Croix de Quimperle by Karen Jankulak
Early Irish Literature
??Sex, Lies and Politics - The Commodification of the Body in Early Christian Irish Literature by Tracey Newlands
Táin Bó Cúailnge and Celtic Battle Strategy in Irish Medieval Sources: Some Issues of lnterpretation by Ewa Sadowska
Irish Politics
??In Search of an Irish Mandela by Simon Adams
Ethnic Conflict Resolution and the Politics of the Irish Language in Northern Ireland by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chrìost
Literature and Irish Politics
??To Redefine 'Warrior': Vincent Buckley and the Irish Hunger Strike by Philip Harvey
The Beggar-King and the Big Fella: Seán O'Faoláin's Daniel O'Connell by Ewan Morris
Parnell: Politics, Poetry and Prose by Emma Hunt
Seamus Heaney: the Political Poetics of a Bog Man by Anne Collett
The Body of Mary Dwyer by Jonathan M Wooding
