Part 1 Cinema: back to Ireland's futures, locating Ireland historically, from end of empire to Euro-nation?, postcolonial Ireland - not only after but going beyond, arguing at the crossroads - historical and cultural debates - 1988-98; a century of cinema in Ireland, from the margins to the millennium?, the idea of national cinema, early cinema in Ireland and the silent rise of Hollywood, cultural and economic protectionism - 1922-1957, from Ardmore Studios to the Irish Film Board - 1958-1987, interregnum in Irish film - 1988-1992, towards a cinema of national questioning - 1993-1997, the bigger picture?; Ireland and popular cinema - from silent adventure to romantic comedy, the textual terrain of film representation, defining popular film in the Hollywood studio era, existing popular cultural representations, Irish Destiny (1926), a landmark without successors - The Dawn (1936), making partition permanent - Odd Man Out (1947), this is Ireland, Sean, not America - The Quiet Man (1952); documents in celluloid - non-fiction films, orchid in the land of technology?, documentary film - origins and traditions, analyzing documentary film, making the romance seem real Man of Aran (1934) and Mise Eire (1959), radical voices -Radharc in Derry (1964), The Irishmen (1965), The Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Ireland - Behind the Wire (1974); a cinema of romance and experiment - 1958-1987, Irish cinema and the new Hollywood, trying to swim with the big fish, big bucks pictures -Ryan's Daughter (1970) and Barry Lyndon (1975), indigenous experiment - Poitin (1978), Our Boys (1980), Maeve (1981), Pigs (1984), commerce vs. art? - Eat the Peach (1986), The Courier (1987), Joyriders (1988), Reefer and the Model (1988); between heritage and Hollywood - 1988-1992, industry's triumph over culture?, heritage film, Irish style - My Left Foot (1989), Hear My Song (1992), confronting taboos - Hush-a-bye-Baby (1989), The Visit (1992), The Snapper (1993), box office Irish - The Field (1990), The Commitments (1991), cowboys or indians? race and migration in contemporary Irish film, in a land where green is white - Far and Away (1992), a second coming -the Film Board revived. Part 2 Television: cathode ni houlihan - a short history of broadcasting in Ireland, British broadcasting in Ireland - 1924-1966, Radio Eireann and national identity - 1926-1960, television - origins, crises, censorship - 1961-1988, beyond broadcasting - re-regulation and new technologies, 1989-1995, television futures - Tara TV and Celtic Vision; the circus in the front room - popular television in Ireland, talk, soap, song -television as entertainment, mid-wife to contemporary Irish liberalism - The Late, Late Show?, soap opera - Glenrow, Fair City, Ros na Run, staging a TV spectacle - RTE and Eurovision; situating Irish television comedy, the empire laughs back?, playing with other people's rules, (con)texts, sit com and society
