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By Patrick R. Mullen

With the weakening ethical authority of the Catholic Church, the growth ushered in through the Celtic Tiger, and the sluggish yet regular diminishment of the concerns within the North, eire has ultimately stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the realm degree as an enormous cosmopolitan country. Taking its name from a veiled connection with Roger Casement-the humanitarian and Irish patriot hanged for treason-in James Joyce's Ulysses, The bad Bugger's Tool demonstrates how the affective hard work of Irish queer tradition may give a contribution to a innovative new nationwide photograph for the Republic and northern Ireland.

Looking again to the 1st wave of Irish modernism within the works of Wilde, Synge, Casement, and Joyce, Patrick Mullen unearths how those authors deployed queer aesthetics to form inclusive varieties of nationwide association in addition to to sharpen anti-imperialist evaluations. In its moment part, the monograph turns its cognizance to Ireland's postmodernist growth within the works of Patrick McCabe, Neil Jordan, and Jamie O'Neill. With readings of The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, and At Swim Boys, Mullen exhibits that queer sensibilities and magnificence stay key cultural assets for negotiating the political and monetary realities of globalization on the flip of the twenty-first century.

Buttressed by way of writings of theorists like Marx, Foucault, and Antonio Negri, The terrible Bugger's Tool brings Irish literature right into a fruitful conversation with queer concept, postcolonial reports, the background of sexuality, and modernist aesthetics.

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