Full Description
This title was first published in 2001. Provides an in-depth analysis of the constitutional representation of Ireland and its citizens. In a society built on contradictions, it is appropriate that the so-called foundational document of the polity is itself a complex of conflicting positions. The Irish Constitution can, in this sense, be read in a manner similar to the texts of literary modernism, as a repository of irreconcilable ideas, which together make up the text.
Contents
ContentsOrigi(N)ation: problems of the constitutional subjectivity; Of manifestos and mamafesta's: gender in(g) the new Ireland; Quare nation: lesbian and gay citizenship in postcolonial law and literature; D(en)ying narratives: law, bioethics and identity; Terri(s)tory: nation and territory in constitutional discourse; Renarr(N)ation: the constitution and the limits of Irish identity; Bibliography.
