
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Meanest Form of Animal’? The Returned Yank in the Cultural Imagination
- 1 ‘Quiet Men’: Film and Filmmaking in Returned Yank Fictions of the Troubles
- 2 ‘Mother Macree ad nauseam’: Maternity, Modernity and the Female Returned Yank
- 3 Erin’s Acres: The Returned Yank, Property Disputes and the Rise and Fall of the Irish Economy
- 4 ‘The Secret Dotted Line’: Return, Roots Journeys and Irish Literary Genealogies
- Coda: ‘We Are Where We Are’: Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment
- Works Cited
- Index
Works Cited
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Meanest Form of Animal’? The Returned Yank in the Cultural Imagination
- 1 ‘Quiet Men’: Film and Filmmaking in Returned Yank Fictions of the Troubles
- 2 ‘Mother Macree ad nauseam’: Maternity, Modernity and the Female Returned Yank
- 3 Erin’s Acres: The Returned Yank, Property Disputes and the Rise and Fall of the Irish Economy
- 4 ‘The Secret Dotted Line’: Return, Roots Journeys and Irish Literary Genealogies
- Coda: ‘We Are Where We Are’: Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Ireland, Migration and Return MigrationThe 'Returned Yank' in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to the present, pp. 249 - 268Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2019