Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: 'The Usual Suspects': Demonic Representations of the PIRA -- 1.1: Signs of Evil -- 1.2: 'Youse Dirty Rat!': The PIRA and Gangsterism -- 1.3: 'Reds in the Bed': The PIRA and the Communist Scare -- 1.4: 'I know how rumours start': Homosexuality and the Irish Gunman -- 1.5: 'Let the Devil take the hindmost': From the SAS to Thatcherism -- Chapter 2 To Kill Or Not To Kill?: Hamlet and the PIRA -- 2.1: The Universal Dilemma -- 2.2: 'Imagine Hamlet in Irish': Jig and the Maternal Thing -- 2.3: 'Would you die for me?': Cal's Good Gertrude -- Chapter 3 VAMPIRA -- 3.1: 'The Sexy Steps of Terror' -- 3.2: Demons of the Cause and Angels in the House -- 3.3: The Blonde Thing -- 3.4: The Mother of Suffering and Desire -- Chapter 4 'It's the Valium talking'?: Fempira and Women Writing Back -- 4.1: Politicizing the Private -- 4.2: How not to Appropriate Social Realism: Jennifer Johnston's Shadows on our Skin -- 4.3: More Subversive Tales To Tell …? -- Conclusion -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Fiction -- Film and Television -- Non-Fiction Books -- Bibliographies, Reports and Journals -- Newspaper and Magazine Articles -- Electronic Information, Music and Interviews -- Index.