Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin and General Editor of the Reimagining Ireland series with Peter Lang. Eugene O’Brien is Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and Director of the MIC Institute for Irish Studies.

• CONTENTS: Eamon Maher: Introduction: Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century – Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire: Applying a Food Studies Perspective to Irish Studies – Barry Houlihan: Archives in Irish Studies: Locating Memory and the Archival Space – Katy Hayward: Between Britain and Europe Once More: The Significance of Brexit for the Reimagination of Ireland – Mary S. Pierse: Catching the Mood: George Moore’s Fin- de- Siècle Involvements – Brian Murphy: Drinking Spaces in Strange Places: New Directions in Irish Beverage Research – Eóin Flannery: Ecotheory and Criticism – Grace Neville: Poverty Trapped: French Traveller Accounts of Poverty in Ireland over the Centuries – Eamonn Wall: Irish Studies in North America: Reflections – Maureen O’Connor: Irish Women’s Writing – Harry White: «Monuments of Its Own Magnificence»: Musicology within Irish Studies – Elke d’Hoker: New Directions in Short Fiction – Sylvie Mikowski: No Country for Young Girls?: Representations of Gender Based Violence in Some Recent Fiction by Irish Women Writers – Colin Coulter and Peter Shirlow: Northern Ireland’s Future(s) – John Walsh: «Real» Language Policy in a Time of Crisis: Covid 19, the State and the Irish Language – Ruth Barton: Reimagining Irish Film Studies for the Twenty-First Century – Catherine Maignant: Religion in Irish Studies – Paul Rouse: Sport and the Irish – Eugene O’Brien: The Dawning of Difference: Literary and Cultural Theory in Irish Studies – Marguérite Corporaal: «The Words Will Come»: Today’s Legacies of the Great Irish Famine – Michael Cronin: Language, Time and the Improbable in Contemporary Ireland – Derek Hand: «What Would I Say, if I Had a Voice?»: The Irish Novel and the Articulation of Modernity.

«This engrossing, sharply argued, and diverse collection of essays captures the dynamic nature of Irish Studies as it changes and reformulates itself in response to current but also abiding concerns. The multi-disciplinary interventions in this volume brilliantly succeed in revisiting and interrogating the field of Irish Studies, broadening its ambit, and mapping trajectories for future engagement. This is an insightful and explorative collection that expertly takes stock of Irish Studies whilst driving it forward.»(Anne Fogarty, Professor of James Joyce Studies, University College Dublin)«From Famine stories to food studies, nineteenth-century travel narratives to contemporary film studies, Fenian invasions to TV stations, the Reimagining Ireland series has pioneered adventurous and enterprising versions and visions of Irish literature, society and culture. This milestone hundredth volume in the series contains essays that reimagine the potential future of Irish Studies in a new century and is remarkable for its diversity, disciplinary range, and dash.»(Joe Cleary, Professor of English, Yale University.)