Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century(Contemporary Irish Studies)

This is an an authoritative, up-to-date account of the development of Irish Studies over the past two decades. The authors examine the key debates that have underpinned recent scholarship and analyse critical concerns that have shaped the subject’s remarkable growth. They trace the institutional fortunes of Irish Studies in Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia and Britain and features in-depth critical accounts of specific trends and themes within Irish historiography, literary criticism, religion, migration, music, cultural geography, sport and media culture.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: where Irish Studies is bound by Liam Harte Part I: Irish Studies in Practice 1. Changing transatlantic contexts and contours: Irish Studies in the United States by Christina Hunt Mahony 2. Re-configuring Irish Studies in Canada: writing back to the centre by Michael Kenneally 3. 10,000 miles away: Irish Studies Down Under by Elizabeth Malcolm 4. 'Our revels now are ended': Irish Studies in Britain - origins and aftermath by Shaun Richards 5. Teaching Irish Studies in Ireland: after the end by Michael Brown Part II: Irish Studies in Critical Perspective 6. The intellectual and the state: Irish criticism since 1980 by Conor McCarthy 7. Forty shades of grey?: Irish historiography and the challenges of multidisciplinarity by Mary E. Daly 8. The religious field in contemporary Ireland: identity, being religious and symbolic domination by Tom Inglis 9. 'A decent girl well worth helping': women, migration and unwanted pregnancy by Louise Ryan 10. Beating the bounds: mapping an Irish mediascape by Lance Pettitt 11. Placing geography in Irish Studies: symbolic landscapes of spectacle and memory by Yvonne Whelan and Liam Harte 12. Listening to the future: music and Irish Studies by Gerry Smyth 13. Beyond sectarianism: sport and Irish culture by Mike Cronin Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Dr Liam Harte is Senior Lecturer in Irish studies at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill. He is the co-editor of Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Pluto, 2006). Yvonne Whelan is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press, 2003) and co-editor of Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Pluto, 2006) and Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005).

Review :
This comes to you with my support and recommendation because it is a timely and carefully considered idea which has been developed carefully over some time. -- Professor Graham Brown Director, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritage This book will explore the cutting edge of current research and pedagogy -- Riana O'Dwyer