Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies

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.

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