Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales [Hardcover]

Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond.List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Tony Tracy and Conn Holohan PART I: QUEERING IRISH MASCULINITY 1. Clubs, Closets and Catwalks: GAA Stars and the Politics of Contemporary Irish Masculinity; Michael G Cronin 2. Trans-Formations of Gendered Identities in Ireland; Jeannine Woods 3. Compartmentalized Cosmopolitans: Constructions of Urban Space in Queer Irish Cinema; Allison Macleod PART II: MUSICAL MASCULINITIES 4. From Men to Boys: Masculinity, Politics and the Irish Boy Band; Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone 5. 'Irish Lads' and English Rock: Musical Masculinities in the 1990s; Sean Campbell 6. 'Oh Me, Oh My': Reviving Joe Dolan and Gendering Performance; M?abh N? Fhuarth?in PART III: MASCULINITY IN DRAMA AND LITERATURE 7. A Postmodern Crisis of Irish Masculinity: Patrick McCabe's Winterwood ; Annabel Sheehan 8. From Violent Masculinites to Gynandricity? Watermark by Sean O'ReillY; Fiona McCann 9. Sons of the Tiger: Performing Neoliberalism, Post-feminism, and Masculinity in 'Crisis' in Contemporary Irish Theatre; Cormac O'Brien 10. Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Unwanted Reflections in The Boys of Foley Street ; Miriam Haughton PART IV: ONSCREEN MASCULINITY 11. Body of Evidence: Performing Hunger ; Emilie Pine 12. Othering Masculinity in the Multicultural Irish Thriller; Z?lie Asava 13. From Symbol to Symptom  Changing Representations of Fatherhood in Recent Irish Cinema; Ruth Barton 14. 'He's a Good Soldier, He Cares about the Future': Post-Feminist Masculinities, the IRA Man and 'Peace' in Northern Ireland; Sarah Edge 15. Pure Male: Masculine Spaces and Stasis in Eugene O'Brien's Pure Mule (2005); Barry Monahan PART V: AFTER THE TIGER: GENDER AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 16. Adjusting Men lã­