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Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash. The essays included address not only changes in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland but also changes in disciplinary approaches to Irish Studies that the last decade of political, economic, and cultural unrest have stimulated.
List of contents
Part I: OVERVIEW
- Introduction: Irish Studies from austerity to pandemic
Renée Fox, Mike Cronin, and Brian Ó Conchubhair
- Towards a history of Irish Studies in the United States
John Waters
- Irish Studies in the non-Anglophone world
Michael Cronin Part II: HISTORICIZING IRELAND
- Irish Historical Studies Avant la Lettre: the antiquarian genealogy of interdisciplinary scholarship
Guy Beiner
- Separate and together: state histories in the twentieth century
Timothy G. McMahon
- Beyond the tale: folkloristics and folklore studies
Kelly Fitzgerald
- The Irish Language and the Gaeltachtaí: illiberalism and neoliberalism
Brian Ó Conchubhair
- The great normalisation: success, failure and change in contemporary Ireland
Eoin O’Malley
- Northern Ireland: more shared and more divided
Dominic Bryan and Gordon Gillespie Part III: GLOBAL IRELAND
- Connections and capital: the diaspora and Ireland’s global networks
Mike Cronin
- Irish-America
Liam Kennedy
- Irish Britain
Mary J. Hickman
- Ireland Inc.
Diane Negra and Anthony P. McIntyre
- Ireland, Europe, and Brexit
Martina Lawless
- Digital Ireland: leprechaun economics, Silicon Docks, and crisis
Kylie Jarrett Part IV: IDENTITIES
- Immigration and citizenship
Lucy Michael
- The "new Irish" neighborhood: race and succession in Ireland and Irish America
Sarah L. Townsend
- Gender and Irish Studies: 2008 to the present
Claire Bracken
- Queering, querying Irish Studies
Ed Madden
- The Catholic Church in Irish Studies
Oliver P. Rafferty Part V: CULTURE
- Reading outside the lines: imagining new histories of Irish fiction
Renée Fox
- Lyric narratives: the experimental aesthetics of Irish poetry
Eric Falci
- The crisis and what comes after: post-Celtic Tiger theatre in a new Irish paradigm
Laura Farrell-Wortman
- Material and visual culture in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Kelly Sullivan
- "Mise Éire": (re)imaginings in Irish Music Studies
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin
- Sport and Irishness in a new millennium
Paul Rouse
Part VI: THEORIZING
27. Environmentalities: speculative imaginaries of the Anthropocene
Nessa Cronin 28. Irish animal studies at the turn of the twenty-first century
Maureen O’Connor 29. Contemporary Irish Studies and the impact of disability
Elizabeth Grubgeld 30. Irish media and representations: new critical paradigms
Emma Radley 31.
Totem and Taboo in Tipperary? Irish shame and neoliberal crisis in Donal Ryan’s
The Spinning Heart
Seán Kennedy Part VII: LEGACY
32. Trauma and recovery in the Post-Celtic Tiger Period: recuperating the parent-child bond in contemporary Irish fiction
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan 33. Abused Ireland: psychoanalyzing the enigma of sexual innocence
Margot Gayle Backus and Joseph Valente 34. Surplus to requirements? the ageing body in contemporary Irish writing
Magaret O’Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh 35. From
Full Irish to
FREESPACE: Irish architecture in the twenty-first century
Brian Ward 36. Repackaging history and mobilizing Easter 1916: commemorations in a time of downturn and austerity
Mike Cronin 37. An ordinary crisis: SARS-CoV-2 and Irish Studies
Malcolm Sen
About the author
Renée Fox is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Co-Director of the Dickens Project, an international research consortium headquartered there. She is completing a book entitled Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation and the Historical Imagination in British and Irish Literature, and her published work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, New Hibernia Review, and several collections and critical editions.
Mike Cronin is the Academic Director of Boston College in Ireland. He has published widely on aspects of Irish history and in particular the sporting and social history of Ireland. He is the director of the government sponsored project, Century Ireland, which is a partnership with RTÉ and the national cultural institutions and is the digital repository for the history of Ireland in the 1913–23 period.
Brian Ó Conchubhair is Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and has published widely on various aspects of the intersections of Irish language culture and literature with modernity.
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Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash. The essays included address not only changes in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland but also changes in disciplinary approaches to Irish Studies that the last decade of political, economic, and cultural unrest have stimulated.
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"The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies and The New Irish Studies do indeed call up limits, but they also make time in particular ways, carving out their own chronologies and shaping history on unexpected scales. In the process, they enlist to their aid not only novels but poems, plays, historical events, performances, paintings, media, sport, buildings, music, animals, sexualities, emotions, environments and disabilities."
Prof Claire Connolly,Book Review inIrish Times, May 29, 2021.
"Up-to-the-minute history rarely works, but this impressive collection is a valuable exception. Indeed, it is its very determination not only to capture but also to focus on the most recent developments both in Ireland and in Irish studies that makes this collection both a success and also a valuable corrective to the somewhat repetitive ‘deep history’ approach to Irish history. Indeed, this range offers a strong model for comparable work on other areas. The collection is to be welcomed, and hopefully will encourage much debate including over methodology."
Jeremy Black, Journal of European Studies 51(2)
"The handbook will be a fascinating read in the future, establishing which of the wide range of predictions and assessments made by its authors have proved accurate; for the moment, it is sure to serve as an important resource to students of Ireland and the international public alike, as well as a useful interdisciplinary compendium to scholars..."
Ondfej Pilny, Charles University, Prague
