Table of Contents
Prelude The Loneliest Boy in the World 1
Chapter 1 1958: On Noah's Ark 7
Chapter 2 1959: Modern Family 44
Chapter 3 1960: Comanche Country 53
Chapter 4 1961: Balubaland 64
Chapter 5 1962: Cathode Ní Houlihan 80
Chapter 6 1963: The Dreamy Movement of the Stairs 93
Chapter 7 1962-1999: Silence and Smoothness 105
Chapter 8 1965: Our Boys 114
Chapter 9 1966: The GPO Trouser Suit 132
Chapter 10 1967: The Burial of Leopold Bloom 153
Chapter 11 1968: Requiem 158
Chapter 12 1969: Frozen Violence 174
Chapter 13 1970: The Killer Chord 183
Chapter 14 1971: Little Plum 196
Chapter 15 1972: Death of a Nationalist 216
Chapter 16 1973: Into Europe 235
Chapter 17 1976: The Walking Dead 250
Chapter 18 1975-1980: Class Acts 255
Chapter 19 1971-1983: Bungalow Bliss 262
Chapter 20 1979: Bona Fides 275
Chapter 21 1980-1981: No Blue Hills 290
Chapter 22 1980-1981: A Beggar on Horseback 304
Chapter 23 1979-1982: The Body Politic 318
Chapter 24 1981-1983: Foetal Attractions 336
Chapter 25 1982: Wonders Taken For Signs 351
Chapter 26 1984-1985: Dead Babies and Living Statues 357
Chapter 27 1987-1991: As Oil Is to Texas 370
Chapter 28 1986-1992: Internal Exiles 380
Chapter 29 1989: Freaks 392
Chapter 30 1985-1992: Conduct Unbecoming 405
Chapter 31 1990-1992: Mature Recollection 416
Chapter 32 1992: Not So Bad Myself 431
Chapter 33 1992-1994: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch 440
Chapter 34 1993: True Confessions 451
Chapter 35 1993-1994: Angel Paper 464
Chapter 36 1998: The Uses of Uncertainty 476
Chapter 37 1990-2015: America at Home 490
Chapter 38 1990-2000: Unsuitables from a Distance 499
Chapter 39 1999: The Cruelty Man 511
Chapter 40 1997-2008: The Makeover 522
Chapter 41 2000-2008: Tropical Ireland 533
Chapter 42 2009-2013: Jesus Fucking Hell and God 549
Chapter 43 2018- : Negative Capability 560
Acknowledgements 571
Notes 572
Credits 599
Index 600