Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-25913-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 518 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1038 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies 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.

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.

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.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Renée

Cronin, Mike

Ó Conchubhair, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.