Introduction / James Byrne, Padraig Kirwan and Michael O'Sullivan -- Theorising Irish studies. Irish studies, the postcolonial paradigm and the comparative mandate -- / Raphael Ingelbien -- Who's he when he's at home?: Spenser and Irishness / Oona Frawley -- Irishness and the body: the presence of the body in the debates on poverty in the early nineteenth century / Anne-Catherine Lobo -- Rebordering territories. The Ulster Scots and the 'greening' of Ireland: a precarious belonging? / Linda M. Hagan -- 'Ma right insane yirwanny us Jimmy?: Irishness in modern Scottish writing / Niall O'Gallagher -- The leid, the pratoe and the buik: northern cultural markers in the works of James Orr / Carol Baraniuk -- No rootless colonist: John Hewitt's regionalist approach to identity / Aoileann Ni Eige -- 'Other' Irelands. Representing travellers / Maureen T. Reddy -- Irish multicultural fiction: metaphors of miscegenation and interracial romance / Jason King -- Subversive identities: femininity, sexuality and 'Irishness' in novels by Edna O'Brien / Iris Lindahl-Raittila -- Transnational Irishness. A 'sympathetic look': documentary humanism and Irish identity in Dorothea Lange's Irish country people / Justin Carville -- Irish-American identity and the Irish language / Thomas W. Ihde -- Shades of green and orange: Irish identity in diaspora / William H. Mulligan, Jr -- Muldoon's palimpsestic Irishness / Florence Schneider -- Masking, affectation and play. The voice of Pierce Brosnan / Ruth Barton -- Shades, minstrel and majestic / Daniel Tobin -- Self-contradiction in a small place: Anne Devlin's other at the edge of life? / Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
