Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contexts and concepts
  • 3. The past in the present
  • 4. Irish nationalists and the colonial image
  • 5. British imperialists and their critics
  • 6. Chroniclers and revisionists
  • 7. Colonialism, criticism, and cultural theory
  • 8. The Irish Republic as "postcolonial" polity
  • 9. Northern Ireland after 1968: an anticolonial struggle?
  • 10. Ulster unionism
  • a colonial culture?
  • 11. Comparative perspectives
  • 12. Conclusions.