Against competing historical and political narratives, this study of 20th century Irish writers will show how their writing challenges assumptions about identity and nation, producing literature that pointedly does not carry a flag but instead explores the oppression, injustice, and violence that the individual being suffers as a consequence of it, and INSISTS on the right to resist, create, and misbehave. Authors will include Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, as well as others.