Introduction / Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- Acts of union: family violence and national courtship in Maria Edgeworth's The absentee and Sydney Owenson's The wild Irish girl / Julia Anne Miller -- Forging a tradition: Emily Lawless and the Irish literary canon / James M. Cahalan -- "Things which seem to you unfeminine": gender and nationalism in the fiction of some upper middle class Catholic women novelists, 1880-1910 / James H. Murphy -- Irish poetry and the modernist canon: a reappraisal of Katharine Tynan / Donna L. Potts -- "A woman of the house": gender and nationalism in the writings of Augusta Gregory / Anne Fogarty -- A trackless road: Irish nationalisms and lesbian writing / Ann Owens Weekes -- Women are trousers / Medbh McGuckian -- Revisionist cartography: the politics of place in Boland and Heaney / Katie Conboy -- Reproducing the nation: nationalism, reproduction, and paternalism in Anne Devlin's Ourselves alone / Ann Rea -- "Instead I said I am a home baker": nationalist ideology and materialist politics in Mary Beckett's Give them stones / Megan Sullivan -- Public spaces, private lives: Irish identity and female selfhood in the novels of Jennifer Johnston / Rachael Sealy Lynch -- The attic LIPs: feminist pamphleteering for the new Ireland / Katherine Martin Gray