List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. All history is local: Modernism and the question of memory in a global Ireland Part I. The Erotics of Memory: 1. Lethal histories: memory-work and the text of the past 2. A Pisgah sight of history: critical authority and the promise of memory 3. A reservation under the name of Joyce: Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and the symptom Part II. The Spectacles of History: 4. The birth of a nation: Irish nationalism and the technology of memory, 1891-1921 5. Fighting the waves: Yeats, Cuchulain and the lethal histories of 'Romantic Ireland' 6. Joyce's erotics of memory: temporal anamorphosis in Finnegans Wake Afterword. The ends of memory and the ex-sistence of Ireland.
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