Empire's wake: postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form

Introduction. Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism

Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets

Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism

Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence

Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the Celtic tiger, and the ashes of history

Conclusion. Dispatches from the modernist frontier: European and Asiatic papers please copy.