| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第9-31页 |
| 1.1 Authors and works under discussion | 第9-11页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第11-14页 |
| 1.3 Methodology and contents of the dissertation | 第14-31页 |
| 2. Brian Moore's Lies of Silence: Irish Identity Crisis and Its Redefinition | 第31-54页 |
| 2.1 Introduction | 第31-32页 |
| 2.2 Division among the Irish | 第32-40页 |
| 2.2.1 Due to religious disputes | 第32-37页 |
| 2.2.2 Due to political disputes | 第37-40页 |
| 2.3 Detrimental effect and futility of radical opposition | 第40-48页 |
| 2.4 Redefinition of Irish Identity through a national language | 第48-54页 |
| 3. Reading in the Dark: Regaining Irishness through Language | 第54-74页 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 第54-56页 |
| 3.2 Loss of Irishness due to political and religious colonization | 第56-61页 |
| 3.3 Irish oppositional efforts and their futility | 第61-64页 |
| 3.4 Regaining Irishness through language | 第64-74页 |
| 4. At Swim, Two Boys: Demystification of Martyrdom and Advocate of Cultural Nationalism | 第74-103页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第74-75页 |
| 4.2 Exhibition of Irish national martyrdom | 第75-76页 |
| 4.3 Demystification of national martyrdom | 第76-79页 |
| 4.4 Cultural nationalism as an alternative path | 第79-103页 |
| 5. Conclusion and Recommendation | 第103-107页 |
| Bibliography | 第107-113页 |
| BIODATA OF THE AUTHOR | 第113页 |
