Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931–1965

Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931-1965 is a critical analysis of the construction, consolidation, and regulation of post-colonial Irish masculinity as evidenced by Irish fiction published during the mid-twentieth century. Investigating the years of the Irish Free State, Éire, and the Republic of Ireland, this book uses the years preceding the enactment of Bunreacht na hÉireann (the Irish Constitution) in 1937 and the years following the First Programme for Ec