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The recent centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising were notable for the considerable effort the Irish government put into making them inclusive. However, inclusiveness in this context masks the fact that the commemorations were exclusive of a particular brand of memory that traces in very uncomplicated fashion its own lineage back not just to 1916, but also specifically to the political violence utilized by the Easter Rising rebels. Not included within the state category of the inclusive, for example, was the second largest Easter Rising commemoration in the North, fronted by masked and uniformed figures. This article seeks to shed light on the tenebrous netherworld where the tradition of armed republicanism - through a combination of its own "purist" volition and state strategies of de-legitimization and marginalization - has been confined. It is written from the perspective that the dialectic between revolutionary memory and constitutional memory is an example of how the past is assessed through the prism of the present, and not with an eye for accuracy.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction-"Fractured Movement": Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora in Contemporary Irish Popular Culture -- Neoliberal Ireland: Mapping the Contemporary Conjuncture North and South -- Conjunctural Flash Points -- Transnationalism, Regionality and Diaspora: Utilizing Key Terms -- Methodology, Choice of Texts and Chapter Overview -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Star Leverage, Local Matters, and Transnational Media: Chris O'Dowd, Moone Boy and Puffin Rock -- Shifting Masculinities in Twenty-First Century Stardom: O'Dowd's Emergence and the Decline of Celtic Tiger Masculinities -- Everyman Appeal, Demotic Corporeality, and Irish Performativity -- Bridesmaids: Breakthrough Performance and the Ambivalence of Irishness -- Accented Performance: O'Dowd's Irishness as Aural Signifier and Diasporic Index -- Transnationalism, Channel Identity and the Irish Sitcom -- Regionalism and Nostalgia in the Irish Sitcom: Moone Boy -- Economic Woes, County Pride and the 'Returning Migrant' -- Renegotiating the West Onscreen: Reflective Nostalgia, Region and the Changing Face of Ireland -- Irish Animation, FDI and Regional Development -- Puffin Rock: Local and International Funding Strategies and Global Appeal10 -- Accent and Visual Style in Puffin Rock -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Derry Girls and Cork Boys: Second Cities, Regional Identities and (Trans)National Tensions in the Contemporary Irish Sitcom -- Regional Comedic Voices -- (Trans)National Hierarchies and the City -- Historical Conditions and "Second City Affect" in Cork and Derry -- Spatialized Inequality and Youthful Mobility in the Young Offenders -- Melodrama, Bromance and the Recuperation of the Lad in the Young Offenders -- Future Girls and Present-Day Troubles: Derry Girls and "The Real Derry Girls".