Irish studies at a time of transition
Irish studies at a time of transition

Summary/Abstract: This extremely informative volume joins a range of prominent recent publications surveying how scholars have reflected on the current significant changes in Irish society and culture: the jubilee issue of Irish University Review on “Irish Studies Now” (Spring/Summer 2020), The New Irish Studies edited by Paige Reynolds (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien’s edited collection Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2021). While several chapter authors of the Routledge handbook have contributed to some of these titles as well, it is the most wide-ranging one in terms of discipline, together with Maher and O’Brien’s book. Both volumes amply demonstrate that gone are the days when Irish studies essentially meant research in literature on the one hand and history on the other, with very limited communication between these domains: indeed, some of the most valuable contributions to the handbook are in the areas of economy, sociology, anthropology, and gender studies. Moreover, the way in which individual chapters speak to each other, overlapping in their analyses, demarcates Irish studies further as a broad interdisciplinary field, one whose remit is a comprehensive study of Ireland in all its aspects, often using hybrid methodologies.

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