| Acknowledgements | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Introduction: The Nation and Postcolonial Theory | 1 |
| 'Misplaced Ideas'?: Colonialism, Location, and Dislocation in Irish Studies | 16 |
| After History: Historicism and Irish Postcolonial Studies | 46 |
| Barbarous Slaves and Civil Cannibals: Translating Civility in Early Modern Ireland | 63 |
| Towards a Postcolonial Enlightenment: The United Irishmen, Cultural Diversity and the Public Sphere | 81 |
| Between Filiation and Affiliation: The Politics of Postcolonial Memory | 92 |
| Dumbness and Eloquence: A Note on English as We Write It in Ireland | 109 |
| Mutinies, India, Ireland and Imperialism | 122 |
| Irish Orientalism: An Overview | 129 |
| Spirituality, Internationalism and Decolonization: James Cousins, the 'Irish Poet from India' | 158 |
| Afterword: Reflections on Ireland and Postcolonialism | 177 |
| Notes and References | 187 |
| Bibliography | 223 |
| Index | 237 |