Poor Bugger's Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History

By Patrick R. Mullen

Book Overview

With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country. Taking its title from a veiled reference to Roger Casement-the humanitarian and Irish patriot hanged for treason-in James Joyce's Ulysses, The Poor Bugger's Tool demonstrates how the affective labor of Irish queer culture might contribute to a progressive new national image for the Republic and Northern Ireland.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190604263
• ISBN13: 9780190604264
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"