Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger’s Tales

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Clubs, Closets and Catwalks: GAA Stars and the Politics of Contemporary Irish Masculinity....Pages 13-26
Trans-formations of Gendered Identities in Ireland....Pages 27-41
Compartmentalized Cosmopolitans: Constructions of Urban Space in Queer Irish Cinema....Pages 42-57
Front Matter....Pages 58-58
From Men to Boys: Masculinity, Politics and the Irish Boy Band....Pages 61-74
‘Irish Lads’ and English Rock: Musical Masculinities in the 1990s....Pages 75-87
‘Oh Me, Oh My’: Masculinity, Popular Music and Reviving Joe Dolan....Pages 88-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
A Postmodern Crisis of Irish Masculinity — Patrick McCabe’s Winterwood (2006)....Pages 103-113
From Violent Masculinities to Gynandricity? Sean O’Reilly’s Watermark (2005)....Pages 114-125
Sons of the Tiger: Performing Neoliberalism, Post-Feminism, and Masculinity in ‘Crisis’ in Contemporary Irish Theatre....Pages 126-141
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Unwanted Reflections in The Boys of Foley Street (2012)....Pages 142-156
Front Matter....Pages 156-156
Body of Evidence: Performing Hunger....Pages 159-170
Othering Masculinity in the Multicultural Irish Thriller....Pages 171-182
From Symbol to Symptom — Changing Representations of Fatherhood in Recent Irish Cinema....Pages 183-194
‘He’s a Good Soldier, He Cares About the Future’: Post-Feminist Masculinities, the IRA Man and ‘Peace’ in Northern Ireland....Pages 195-206
Pure Male: Masculine Spaces and Stasis in Eugene O’Brien’s Pure Mule (2005)....Pages 207-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland....Pages 223-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-253