In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics
provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast …

studies and an assessment of their influence in Irish studies. Indeed the contested status of
these volumes from their very inception? objected to by some as wrongly separate in their …

A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary
Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish …

Cultural alteration is slower to take effect, but the nation's sexual repressions, in-turned
emotional culture, and misogynist containment of feminine sexuality were strongly affected …

Those who study and write on Irish foreign policy1 appear to be divided. Some argue that
Ireland's evolving place in the world has been a function of individual choices. Thus, they …

What is 'Irish Studies' now? Is it, in fact, just a shorthand term for the interdisciplinary/
intercultural study of 'the Irish'and 'Irishness', or is it a paradigm that has become exclusively …

A number of prominent critics have observed that Irish Studies is a practice configured by a
sense of crisis. In Irish Classics Declan Kiberd notes that 'Irish Studies, for all its hopes of …

This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has
often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections …

This article critically engages with the concepts of home, nationality and belonging by
evaluating explanations of (e) migration of mid-20th century Irish working class men. We do …

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a
comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good …