From the Famine to political hunger strikes, from telling tales in
the pub to Beckett's tortured utterances, the performance of Irish
identity has always been deeply connected to the oral. Exploring
how colonial modernity transformed the spaces that sustained
Ireland's oral culture, this book explains why Irish culture has
been both so creative and so resistant to modernization. David
Lloyd brings together manifestations of oral culture in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how the survival of
orality was central both to resistance against colonial rule and to
Ireland's modern definition as a postcolonial culture. Specific to
Ireland as these histories are, they resonate with postcolonial
cultures globally. This study is an important and provocative new
interpretation of Irish national culture and how it came into
being.
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