The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to
independence, civil war and later the Troubles; from poverty to globalisation and the Celtic …

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable
to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than …

Scottish and “Celtic fringe” postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in
literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with …

As I begin, I wish to address the question some of my readers may ask themselves when
reading the title of my volume: when I speak of 'memories', am I simply speaking of …

This special issue of Irish Studies Review provides a forum for critical interventions on the
prospects and pertinence of postcolonialism for Ireland. Irish Studies Review has a record of …

This paper endeavours to prove the centrality of the ecoweb formed by earth, water, air and
fire in the verse of the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The bridge between Nature …

Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to
Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical …

The widely held perception of the Irish as white independent citizens overshadows their long
history of ethnic and racial discrimination. In fact, the Irish did not truly attain “whiteness” until …

The success of the 2015 marriage equality referendum made Ireland the first country in the
world to introduce marriage equality by public vote. Debates surrounding marriage equality …

Abstract “Queering Dublin” brings the issues of post-colonialism and constructions of an
idealized masculinity to the fore of an examination of same-sex desiring men in urban …