The chapter examines the novelistic output of the Republic of Ireland since the late Sixties to the date of publication (early 2000s), with an emphasis on the stylistic evolution and combined trends of experimentalism and realism, the dominant themes of national identity, gender politics, the family and especially the changing perception of the national past on the social and cultural identity of modernising and globalising Ireland, which characterizes some important historical fictions of the late 1990s, early 2000s.
