Contents: Introduction / Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell
On the necessity of violence in the Irish Revolution / Peter Hart
Sean O'Casey and the dialectics of violence / Bernice Schrank
Sexing the rising : men, sex, violence and Easter 1916 / Danine Farquharson
Dash and Daring : imperial violence and Irish ambiguity / Timothy G. McMahon
Writing an Orange Dolly's Brae / Sean Farrell
Symbolic and hyperreal violence in the Irish 'Troubles' Movie / Brian McIlroy
Undoing the fanaticism of meaning : Neil Jordan's Angel / Keith Hopper
Ciaran Carson : the new urban poetics / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
Memory, history, story : between poetics and ethics / Richard Kearney.
Shadows of the gunmen : violence and culture in modern Ireland. ISBN 9781859184240. Published by Cork University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.