Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies

<p><em>Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies</em> begins with the reversal in Irish fortunes after the 2008 global economic crash. The chapters 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. </p><p>Since 2008, Irish Studies has been directly and indirectly influenced by the crash and its reverberations through the economy, political landscape, and social framework of Ireland and beyond. Approaching Irish pasts, presents, and futures through interdisciplinary and theoretically capacious lenses, the chapters in this volume reflect the myriad ways Irish Studies has responded to the economic precarity in the Republic, renewed instability in the North, the complex European politics of Brexit, global climate and pandemic crises, and the intense social change in Ireland catalyzed by all of these. </p><p>Just as Irish society has had to dramatically reconceive its economic and global identity after the crash, Irish Studies has had to shift its theoretical modes and its objects of analysis in order to keep pace with these changes and upheavals. This book captures the dynamic ways the discipline has evolved since 2008, exploring how the age of austerity and renewal has transformed both Ireland and scholarly approaches to understanding Ireland. It will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature, economics, and political science.</p><p>Chapter 3, 5 and 15 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</p> <p><b>Part I: OVERVIEW</b></p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Introduction: Irish Studies from austerity to pandemic<br><em>Renée Fox, </em><em>Mike Cronin, </em><em>and Brian Ó Conchubhair</em> </li> <p> </p> <li>Towards a history of Irish Studies in the United States<br><i>John Waters</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Irish Studies in the non-Anglophone world<br><i>Michael Cronin</i> </li> <b> </b><p>Part II: HISTORICIZING IRELAND</p> <p> </p> <li>Irish Historical Studies <i>Avant la Lettre</i>: the antiquarian genealogy of interdisciplinary scholarship<br><i>Guy Beiner </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Separate and together: state histories in the twentieth century<br><i>Timothy G. McMahon</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Beyond the tale: folkloristics and folklore studies<br><i>Kelly Fitzgerald </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The Irish Language and the Gaeltachtaí: illiberalism and neoliberalism<br><i>Brian Ó Conchubhair </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The great normalisation: success, failure and change in contemporary Ireland<br><i>Eoin O’Malley </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Northern Ireland: more shared and more divided<br><i>Dominic Bryan and Gordon Gillespie</i> </li> <b> </b><p>Part III: GLOBAL IRELAND</p> <p> </p> <li>Connections and capital: the diaspora and Ireland’s global networks<br><i>Mike Cronin</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Irish-America<br><i>Liam Kennedy </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Irish Britain<br><i>Mary J. Hickman </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Ireland Inc.<br><i>Diane Negra and Anthony P. McIntyre </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Ireland, Europe, and Brexit<br><i>Martina Lawless </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Digital Ireland: leprechaun economics, Silicon Docks, and crisis<br><i>Kylie Jarrett </i> </li> <b> </b><p>Part IV: IDENTITIES</p> <p> </p> <li>Immigration and citizenship<br><i>Lucy Michael </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The "new Irish" neighborhood: race and succession in Ireland and Irish America<br><i>Sarah L. Townsend</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Gender and Irish Studies: 2008 to the present<br><i>Claire Bracken </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Queering, querying Irish Studies<br><i>Ed Madden </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The Catholic Church in Irish Studies<br><i>Oliver P. Rafferty</i> </li> <b> </b><p>Part V: CULTURE</p> <p> </p> <li>Reading outside the lines: imagining new histories of Irish fiction<br><i>Renée Fox </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Lyric narratives: the experimental aesthetics of Irish poetry<br><i>Eric Falci </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>The crisis and what comes after: post-Celtic Tiger theatre in a new Irish paradigm<br><i>Laura Farrell-Wortman </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Material and visual culture in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland<br><i>Kelly Sullivan </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>"Mise Éire": (re)imaginings in Irish Music Studies<br><i>Méabh Ní Fhuartháin </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Sport and Irishness in a new millennium <br><i>Paul Rouse</i> </li> </ol><p>Part VI: THEORIZING</p><p> 27. Environmentalities: speculative imaginaries of the Anthropocene<br><i> Nessa Cronin </i></p><p> 28. Irish animal studies at the turn of the twenty-first century<br><i> Maureen O’Connor </i></p><p> 29. Contemporary Irish Studies and the impact of disability<br><i> Elizabeth Grubgeld</i></p><p> 30. Irish media and representations: new critical paradigms<br><em> Emma Radley </em></p><p> 31. <em>Totem and Taboo</em> in Tipperary? Irish shame and neoliberal crisis in Donal Ryan’s <i>The Spinning Heart<br> Seán Kennedy </i></p><ol> <b> </b><p>Part VII: LEGACY</p> </ol><p> 32. Trauma and recovery in the Post-Celtic Tiger Period: recuperating the parent-child bond in contemporary Irish fiction<br><i> Kathleen Costello-Sullivan</i></p><p> 33. Abused Ireland: psychoanalyzing the enigma of sexual innocence<br><em> Margot Gayle Backus and </em><em>Joseph Valente</em></p><p> 34. Surplus to requirements? the ageing body in contemporary Irish writing<br><i> Magaret O’Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh</i></p><p> 35. From <i>Full Irish</i> to <i>FREESPACE</i>: Irish architecture in the twenty-first century <br><i> Brian Ward</i></p><p> 36. Repackaging history and mobilizing Easter 1916: commemorations in a time of downturn and austerity<br><i> Mike Cronin </i></p><p> 37. An ordinary crisis: SARS-CoV-2 and Irish Studies<br><i>Malcolm Sen </i></p>