This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish
suburbia and the historical social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have
emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received
relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this
critical deficit. It significantly advances the nascent socio-historical field of Irish
suburban studies while simultaneously disclosing and establishing a history of suburban Irish
literary and visual culture. The essays also challenge conventional conceptions of what
constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing and art and reveal that though Irish suburban
experience is often conceived of pejoratively by writers and artists there are also many who
register and valorise the imaginative possibilities of Irish suburbia and the meanings of its
social and cultural life.
