Luck and the Irish: a brief history of change from 1970

Introduction: Culture and anarchy in Ireland c. 1970-2000

The miracle of loaves and fishes

How the Catholics became Protestants

'The party fight and funeral' : Fianna Fáil and Irish politics in the late twentieth century

'Big, mad children' : The south and the north

How the short stories became novels

Conclusion: The strange death of romantic Ireland.