The story of Ireland -- Theme-parks and histories -- "Colliding cultures" : Leland Lyons and the reinterpretation of Irish history -- Yeats at war : poetic strategies and political reconstruction -- "When the newspapers have forgotten me" : Yeats, obituarists, and Irishness -- The normal and the national : Yeats and the boundaries of Irish writing -- Square-built power and fiery shorthand : Yeats, Carleton, and the Irish nineteenth century -- Stopping the hunt : Trollope and the memory of Ireland -- Prints on the scene : Elizabeth Bowen an the landscape of childhood -- Selling Irish childhoods : Frank McCourt and Gerry Adams -- The salamander and the slap : Hubert Butler and his century -- Remembering 1798.