CONTENTS: Catherine Rees: When two tribes go to war: The battle of the sexes in Gary Mitchell's post cease-fire dramatic battlefield - Declan Brennan: Men Making a Show: Depictions of men in contemporary Irish monologues - Ciara Murphy: «Is this what it means to be men?» - The Transformation of Masculine Identity Through Crisis in Frank McGuinness's Someone Who'll Watch Over Me - Richard Connolly: Determinism, Heredity, Interpellation and Societal Structures - A Depiction of A Young Man's Form of Suicide in Billy Roche's A Handful of Stars - Michael Richardson/Gwilym Lawrence: Under Us All: «What you've been through ... is what we've all been through» - Stephanie Jones/Sarah Martindale: Brendan, Ken and Gerry: Cinematic Lenses on Irish Masculinity in Crisis - Cathrin Ruppe: The Influence of Cinematic Representation on Masculine Identities and Violence in Northern Ireland - Anne Duflos: Alienated Masculinities in Robert McLiam Wilson's Eureka Street: Between Stereotypical Forms of Masculinity and Rejection of Essentialized Male Identities - Charlotte Beyer: «Still a Respected Man»: Irish Masculinity in Crisis and Crime Fiction - Adam Bargroff: The Crypt and the Iceberg: Intergenerational and Intertextual Transmission in John McGahern's «Korea» - Alan Bairner: Ordinary Men in an Abnormal Society: Men and Masculinity in David Park's Fiction.