Eugene O’Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory and of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series.

• Introduction: Towards an Evaluation of Paul Howard 1. Seeing Ireland Differently: The Theoretical Lens 2. Ireland’s Satirical Tradition and Howard’s Place in it 3. The Best Years of Our Lives – School and College 4. Married in the Celtic Tiger 5. States of Denial 6. From Prosperity to Austerity 7. Bouncing Back 8. Ross Grows Up (?) 9. A Family Man

Eugene O’Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory and of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series.

• Introduction: Towards an Evaluation of Paul Howard 1. Seeing Ireland Differently: The Theoretical Lens 2. Ireland’s Satirical Tradition and Howard’s Place in it 3. The Best Years of Our Lives – School and College 4. Married in the Celtic Tiger 5. States of Denial 6. From Prosperity to Austerity 7. Bouncing Back 8. Ross Grows Up (?) 9. A Family Man

Eugene O’Brien is Professor of English Literature and Theory, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory and of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series.

• Introduction: Towards an Evaluation of Paul Howard 1. Seeing Ireland Differently: The Theoretical Lens 2. Ireland’s Satirical Tradition and Howard’s Place in it 3. The Best Years of Our Lives – School and College 4. Married in the Celtic Tiger 5. States of Denial 6. From Prosperity to Austerity 7. Bouncing Back 8. Ross Grows Up (?) 9. A Family Man