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close to the next moment misogyny, 11, 103, 104 Mitchell, John

The Last Conquest of Ireland, Perhaps,

136 Mitchell, Susan, 217 mobile phones, 21, 39, 121, 170 modernity, 2, 5, 28, 73, 74, 81, 91, 96,

100, 112–13, 117, 141, 170, 205, 215, 236 Monaghan, 189 money, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 37, 57, 60, 73,

81, 95, 126, 130, 170, 234, 235. See also boom, Celtic Tiger, prosperity Montague, John, 204, 215 Morisot, Berthe, 240 Morrison, Danny, 140 Mother Ireland, 30, 118 moving statues, 118, 171 Muldoon, Paul, xi, 89, 162, 204

Horse Latitudes, 181 Maggot, 183 ‘The Old Country’, 162, 181 Mulhall, Anne, viii, xi, 188 multicultural society, 36, 55, 64, 114 multinational corporations, 29, 130 Murphy report, x Murphy, Brenda, 140 Murphy, Jimmy

The Kings of the Kilburn High Road,

36, 37 Murphy, Michael J., 136 Murphy, Richard, 123 Murphy, Tom, 57, 229 myth, 45, 70, 71, 85, 89, 100, 108,

122, 154, 156, 157, 164, 203, 205, 229, 234, 240 nationalism, 20, 28, 53, 80, 168, 169,

235 Native Americans, 25, 82, 182 nature, 29–30, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,

128, 164, 193, 207, 209, 226–8, 231. See also environment, landscape Neruda, Pablo, 136 New York, 22, 38, 63, 75, 81, 119,

182, 233 newcomers, 15, 22, 32, 142. See also immigration Ní Chiosáin, Fionnuala, 79 Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, 89, 93, 204 Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, x, 47, 204

The Fifty Minute Mermaid, 93 ‘My Dark Master’, 96 Rogha Dánta, 93 Selected Essays, 89 Ní Fhaircheallaigh, Úna, 217

Ní Fhoghlú, Áine, 217 Nicholson, Winifred, 227 Nigeria, 19, 36, 38, 39–40, 42, 48,

142, 147, 150, 181, 188, 189, 190–9 Northern Ireland, 14, 18, 21, 42, 61,

135, 140, 170, 180, 181, 195, 203, 204, 207, 208, 223, 224, 228–9 Northern Ireland Assembly, 207, 224 nostalgia, 6, 127, 149, 203, 235 nuns, 56, 85, 91, 195 Ó Direáin, Máirtín, 92, 125 Ó Faoláin, Seán, 136 Ó Flatharta, Liam, 125 Ó Laoghaire, Peadar, 90 Ó Ríordáin, Seán, 92, 125, 217 Ó Searcaigh, Cathal, xi, 47

Light on Distant Hills, 213, 214, 219 Na Buachaillí Bána, 213 O’Brien, Edna, 9, 235 O’Brien, Flann, 14 O’Brien, Kate, 235 O’Casey, Sean, 80, 136, 144, 146

The Silver Tassie, 107, 146 O’Connor, Frank, 136 O’Connor, Sinéad, 14 O’Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 139 O’Driscoll, Dennis, 208 O’Mahony, Nessa, viii, xi, 188 O’Malley, Mary, viii, x

A Consideration of Silk, 129 ‘In the Name of God and All the

Dead Generations’, 128 The Knife in the Wave, 124 ‘Locus Pocus’, 125 A Perfect V, 129 ‘Saying Kaddish for Allen Ginsberg in a Catholic Way’, 123 ‘The Second Plantation of

Connaught’, 127 Where the Rocks Float, 129 O’Rowe, Mark, 105 O’Toole, Fintan, 204 objects, 7, 66, 69, 74, 164, 228, 239–

40 Offaly, 100 Onyejelem, Chinedu, 147 Oppenheim, Meret, 69 oppression, 10, 16, 39, 80, 82, 117, 194 Orlandersmith, Dael, 106 orphans, 58, 103, 173 Osborne, John, 106 outsiders, 15, 19, 21, 39, 41–2, 117,

118, 174, 193, 217. See also newcomers