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Giacometti, Alberto, 67 Gillespie, Rowan, 155, 163 Gilsenan, Alan, 234 Ginsberg, Allen, 47, 123, 124 globalisation, ix, 7, 14, 21, 28, 29, 32,

61, 63, 73, 86, 110, 112, 120, 139, 149, 194, 204, 215, 235 Goldsmith, Oliver, 205 Good Friday Agreement, 224, 230 Google, 31 Gordimer, Nadine, 140 government, x, 22, 113, 183 Graeve, Jobst, 158 Gregory, Lady, 84, 105, 146, 168 Griffith, Arthur, 10 Hamilton, Hugo

Hand in the Fire, 15 Headbanger, 17 Sad Bastard, 17 The Sailor in the Wardrobe, 14, 15 The Speckled People, 14, 20, 219–20 Hardy, Thomas, 209 Hartnett, Michael, 14, 89, 123 Heaney, Joe, 122 Heaney, Marie, 201 Heaney, Seamus, xi, 23, 229

‘The Birthplace’, 206 The Cure at Troy, 207 District and Circle, 205 The Haw Lantern, 206 Human Chain, 208 ‘Making Strange’, 209 ‘Moyulla’, 208 ‘Route 110’, 208 Station Island, 206 ‘The Tollund Man in Springtime’,

205 Heaney, Seamus and Dennis O’Driscoll

Stepping Stones, 208 Hewitt, John, 230 Higgins, Michael D., 95 Hirst, Damien, 75 history, x, 1, 10, 13, 16–17, 20, 21, 28,

32, 39, 45, 46, 50, 57, 61, 64, 72, 80, 82, 83, 89, 94, 115, 123, 132, 133, 134, 136–7, 148, 158, 163, 168, 169, 173, 175, 176, 179, 180, 181, 184, 204, 224–5, 235, 236, 240, 241. See also past Ho Chi Minh, 139 Holland, Mary, 9, 161 Homer, 108, 129, 225 homosexuality, 114, 115, 171, 217. See also Gay Liberation Front, see also under Dublin

Hughes, Ted, 123 hunger strikes, 140 identity, 7, 14, 18, 20, 21, 33, 39, 45,

49–50, 56, 58, 80, 84, 85, 97, 105, 110–11, 117, 120, 122, 129, 146, 156, 172, 175, 176, 196, 197, 203, 207, 209, 220, 228 national, 8, 18, 33, 55, 82, 158. See also Irishness imagery, x, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 100,

108, 146, 154, 155, 157, 159, 160, 161–2, 163, 164, 169, 170, 172, 173, 182, 183, 206, 209, 228, 236– 7, 238, 240 immigration, 5, 15, 19, 20, 22, 23, 36,

37, 38, 39, 48, 57, 119, 141, 142, 144, 147, 149, 175, 193, 195, 198, 216, 220. See also emigration, newcomers Innti, 89, 92 insiders, 21, 42, 174. See also outsiders Internet, xi, 112, 165, 204, 215. See also computers IRA, 80, 124, 130, 140, 195, 225 Irish character, 6, 82, 111, 117, 235 language, x, 13, 16, 19, 45, 84, 89,

90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 115–16, 117, 122, 123, 125, 128, 141, 148, 194, 213, 214, 215–16, 220 Irish-language poetry, 47, 92, 96,

125, 218, 219 poetry, 34, 103, 104, 123, 201, 204,

209, 217–18, 237, 240, 241 rural society, 2, 5, 6, 55, 56, 57, 59,

60, 102, 148, 155, 205 songs, 19, 20, 85, 113, 137, 217,

241 writers, 2, 20, 101, 146, 193, 207,

218, 228, 229 Irish Republic, 158, 159, 170, 183,

195, 203, 204, 241 Irish Times, 6, 8, 38, 52, 155, 225, 237 Irishness, x, xi, xii, 7, 8, 15, 30, 34, 39,

57, 63, 66, 69, 72, 80, 82, 84–5, 101, 105, 110, 111–12, 117, 119, 126, 146, 147, 152, 175–6, 196, 209, 240–1. See also under identity Jordan, Eithne, 68 Joyce, Ian, viii, 214 Joyce, James, 3, 11, 13, 80, 83, 86, 91,

110, 111, 114, 174 Dubliners, 3, 136 Finnegans Wake, 33, 114