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Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Sandra Mayer, Julia Novak, Margarete Rubik -- A Nation Of Soliloquists? The Irish And The Dramatic Monologue / Michael Raab -- Kilroy's Wedekind: From Spring Awakening To Christ, Deliver Us! / José Lanters -- The Last Gasps Of The Celtic Tiger? Tom Murphy's Golovlyovs / Ondřej Pilný -- Self-reflexivity And Metafication In Martin Mcdonagh's Plays / Martin Middeke -- A Peacock In Buncrana -- Frank Mcguinness's Drama At The Beginning Of The Twenty-first Century / Mark Berninger -- The Necessary Uncertainty: Radical Artist(e)s In The Plays Of Brian Friel / Heinz Kosok -- Shifts And Rifts In The Home Place / Hedwing Schwall -- States Of Exile: Anne Devlin's After Easter / Britta Olinder -- Playing It Out -- Football And Irishness In Contemporary Irish Drama / Mark Schreiber -- Filming Gaelic Games: George Fleischmann And The Emergence Of A Distinctive Irish Film Culture Post-world War Ii / Seán Crosson --^ Irish Myth Goes Global In America / Dawn Duncan -- Irish Comedy? Dylan Moran, Germany, Beckett, And Black Books / Eckart Voigts-virchow -- 'a Parliament Of Monsters': Commodity Spectacle In Nineteenth-century Irish Popular Entertainment / Alison O'malley-younger -- Whelan's, The Sinn Féin Depot, And The Selling Of Irish Sport / John Strachan -- These Celts Are Crazy: The Reception Of Sean O'casey's Plays In Vienna / Margarete Rubik -- Lolo Lolo Liebermann ... Lala Lala, Leapermann: The Viennese Lieber Augustin-song As An Austro-hungarian Counterpart Of Finnegans Wake / Dieter Fuchs -- The Duty Of Genius As Madman By The Sea: Biographical Writing And Wittgenstein In Ireland / Monika Seidl -- Hidden Histories And Unwelcome Memories In Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People / Clare Wallace -- The Discovery Of An Imaginary Island: Irish Fiction Visits By Brasil / Barbara Freitag --^ You Have To Have A Grá To Do It: An Interview With Irish Storytellers Clare Murphy, Niall De Búrca, And Joe Brennan / Sandra Mayer, Julia Novak -- Notes On Contr