Foilsiú volume 4

Foilsiú

Volume 4. Number 1

Spring 2004

Situating the Emergent Field of Irish Traveller Studies      5

    Mary Burke

Wentworth, Ireland, and the Politics of Patriarchy           29

The Case of Adam Loftus, Lord Chancellor of Ireland

    Brendan Kane

The Masochistic Republican Body and                          39

the Politics of Revisionism

    Megan E. Parsells

Why Are You Studying That                                      51

Objectivity, Identification, and Empathy in Irish Studies

    Gary Kenneth Peatling

Poetry by Joseph Lennon                                          73

 “If Vermeer Were Here”                                          74

“Smoking Ban”                                                        75

“29^th Birthday”                                                      76

Youth, Warriors, and Homoerotic Reproduction              85

Queer and Celtic in Irish Studies as Strange Bedfellows

    Phillip A. Bernhardt-House

Spectral Youth                                                        95

Gay Literature, Irish Studies, Queer Theories

    Ed Madden

Beckett’s Book of Youth                                           109

Bildung and the Nation-Space in Dream of Fair to Middling Women

    Patrick W. Bixby