Introduction: The radical Irish renaissance and Badiou -- Joyce, Stephens damnation, and Badiou's Saint Paul -- Badiou and the multiple subject of Joyce's Ulysses -- Beckett's lost love -- Flann O'Brien's third policeman as Lacanian [KLC1] deity -- John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: lost in the stars -- War 1: victims -- War 2: heroes -- Family: the lost [KLC2] son -- Anne Enright's The gathering: the pursuit of damnation -- Conclusion: The uses of damnation