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Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture This page intentionally left blank Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture Edited by Wanda Balzano Wake Forest University Anne Mulhall University College Dublin and Moynagh Sullivan NUI, Maynooth Selection and editorial matter © Wanda Balzano,Anne Mulhall and Moynagh Sullivan 2007 Chapters © their authors 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-00870-0 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillandivision of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® isa registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28423-8 ISBN 978-0-230-80058-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230800588 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Irish postmodernisms and popular culture / edited by Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall,Moynagh Sullivan. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:Race — Space — Diaspora — Aporia. 1. Popular culture—Ireland.2. Postmodernism—Ireland.I.Balzano, Wanda II.Mulhall,Anne III.Sullivan,Moynagh DA925.I7435 2007 306.09417—dc22 2006048787 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 This book is dedicated with thanks to all the wonderful women in our lives:mothers, aunts, daughters, sisters and friends; teachers, students and colleagues This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction xiii Part I Race 1 Not Irish Enough? Masculinity and Ethnicity in The WireandRescue Me 3 Gerardine Meaney 2 Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle andMetro Eireann 15 Maureen T. Reddy 3 Marching, Minstrelsy, Masquerade: Parading White Loyalist Masculinity as ‘Blackness’ 26 Suzanna Chan 4 ‘Is it for the Glamour?’: Masculinity, Nationhood and Amateurism in Contemporary Projections of the Gaelic Athletic Association 39 Mike Cronin Part II Space 5 ‘Our Nuns are not a Nation’: Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film 55 Elizabeth Butler Cullingford 6 Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name 74 Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka 7 Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland 85 Kathryn Conrad vii viii Contents 8 Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman 100 Wanda Balzano and Jefferson Holdridge Part III Diaspora 9 Cinematic Constructions of Irish Musical Ethnicity 115 Christopher Smith 10 St Patrick’s Day Expulsions: Race and Homophobia in New York’s Parade 128 Katherine O’Donnell 11 Fantasy, Celebrity and ‘Family Values’ in High-End and Special Event Tourism in Ireland 141 Diane Negra 12 A Mirror up to Irishness: Hollywood Hard Men and Witty Women 157 Claire Bracken and Emma Radley Part IV Aporia 13 ‘Let’s Get Killed’: Culture and Peace in Northern Ireland 171 Colin Graham 14 Boyz to Men: Irish Boy Bands and Mothering the Nation 184 Moynagh Sullivan 15 Quare Theory 197 Noreen Giffney 16 Camping up the Emerald Aisle: ‘Queerness’ in Irish Popular Culture 210 Anne Mulhall Index 225 Acknowledgements We are grateful to our friends, families, teachers and students for sharing ideas, inspiration, commitment, support, advice and good humour with us in the process of editing this book and over the years. Thanks to all our colleagues, past and present, at NUI Maynooth, University College Dublin, Wake Forest University, NUI Galway, and University College Cork. We should like to thank in particular Marie-Louise Coolahan, Patricia Coughlan, Colin Graham, Selina Guinness, Jeff Holdridge, Margaret Kelleher, Gerardine Meaney and Cliona O Gallchóir. Amanda Bent’s organizationalmagic was invaluable, as was her assistance with the cover design. The editors and the publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reprint material: Éire-Ireland for a revised version of Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, ‘“Our Nuns Are Not a Nation”: Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film’; Irish University Review for Maureen Reddy, ‘Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann’; and The Irish Reviewfor a revised version of Moynagh Sullivan, ‘Boyz to Men’. In the event that any copyright holders have been inadvertently over- looked, the authors and publishers will make amends at the earliest opportunity. Thanks to the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Publications Scheme for Research and Graduate Studies for an award to assist with publishing costs; thanks also to Simon Coury, our indexer, and to Melanie Blair, Jill Lake and Barbara Slater at Palgrave Macmillan for kind and helpful support. ix
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