Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Out of Ireland, Maud Ellmann; Part I: Heresies of Time and Space; 1. Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism, Paul Saint-Amour; 2. Temporal Powers: Second Sight, the Future, and Celtic Modernity, Luke Gibbons; 3. Waking from History: The Nation’s Past and Future in Finnegans Wake, Jeremy Colangelo; 4. W.B. Yeats’s The Dreaming of the Bones and the Limits of Global Modernism, Cóilín Parsons; 5. Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border, Maud Ellmann; 6. Hereseas: Water in English and Irish Modernism, Nels Pearson; Part II: Heresies of Nationalism 7. ‘A Fairy Boy of Eleven, a Changeling, Kidnapped, Dressed in an Eton Suit’: Precarious, Lost, and Recovered Children in Anglophone Irish Modernism, Margot Backus; 8. Legacies of Land and Soil: Irish Drama, European Integration, and the Unfinished Business of Modernism, Sarah Townsend; 9. Ireland’s Philatelic Modernism, Julieann Veronica Ulin; 10. Modernism against/for the Nation: Joycean Echoes in Post-War Taiwan, Shan-Yun Huang; 11. Rage’s Brother: The Bomb at the Center of Wilde’s Trivial Comedy, Kathryn Conrad; Part III: Aesthetic Heresies; 12. Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism, Eric Falci; 13. Modernist Heresies: Irish Visual Culture and the Arts and Crafts movement, Kelly Sullivan; 14. The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland, Matthew Brown; 15. ‘Put "Molotoff bread-basket" into Irish, please’: Cruiskeen Lawn, Dada and the Blitz, Catherine Flynn; 16. Irish Christian Comedy: Heresy or Reform?, Vicki Mahaffey; Part IV: Heresies of Gender and Sexuality; 17. The Irish Bachelor, Ed Madden; 18. ‘Purity, Piety, and Simplicity’: Heretical Images of the Female Catholic Reader in Irish Modernism, T.J. Boynton; 19. ‘Stolen fruit is best of all’: The Pleasures of Subversive Consumption in the Late Novels of Molly Keane, Lauren Rich; 20. ‘Stories Are A Different Kind of True’: Gender and Narrative Agency in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction, Siân White; 21. Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ailbhe Darcy; Part V: Critical Heresies; 22. ‘A form that accommodates the mess’: Degeneration and/as Disability in Beckett’s Happy Days, Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente; 23. Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction, Maureen O’Connor; 24. Theorising Irish-Language Modernism: Voicing Precarity, Sarah McKibben; 25. Affective Alchemy: W. B. Yeats and the Heresy of Joy, Wendy Truran; 26. Watery modernism? Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones and W. B. Yeats’s John Sherman, Claire Connolly; Index.