Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a history of the Irish orifice; 1. Irish hunger: the political economy of the potato; 2. Closing the mouth: disciplining oral space; 3. Counterparts: the public house, masculinity and temperance nationalism; 4. 'Going nowhere': oral space in the cell block; 5. The breaker's yard: from forensic to interrogation modernity; 6. On extorted speech: back to How It Is; Bibliography; Index.
Irish culture and colonial modernity, 1800-2000 : the transformation of oral space by David Lloyd. ISBN 9781107008977. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.