Michael Rubenstein, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, 2010. 272 pages. USD 32.00 (paperback) Maria McGarrity and Claire A. Culleton (editors), Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 260 pages. USD 90.00 (hardback)