Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century

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This landmark collection marks the publication of the 100th book in the Reimagining Ireland series. It attempts to provide a forward look (as opposed to what Frank O'Connor once referred to as the backward look) at what Irish Studies might look like in the third millennium. With a Foreword by Declan Kiberd, it also contains essays by several other leading Irish Studies experts on (among other areas) literature and critical theory, sport, the Irish language, food and beverage studies, cinema, women's writing, Brexit, religion, Northern Ireland, the legacy of the Great Famine, Ireland in the French imagination, archival research, musicology, and Irish Studies in North America. The book is a tribute to Irish Studies' foundational commitment to revealing and renewing Irishness within and beyond the national space. Cover Cover2 Table of contents List of Figures Foreword: Future Perfect (Declan Kiberd) Acknowledgements Introduction: – Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Eamon Maher) 1 Applying a Food Studies Perspective to Irish Studies (Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire) 2 Archives in Irish Studies: Locating Memory and the Archival Space (Barry Houlihan) 3 Between Britain and Europe Once More: The Significance of Brexit for the Reimagination of Ireland (Katy Hayward) 4 Catching the Mood: George Moore’s Fin-de-Siècle Involvements (Mary S. Pierse) 5 Drinking Spaces in Strange Places: New Directions in Irish Beverage Research (Brian Murphy) 6 Ecotheory and Criticism (Eóin Flannery) 7 Poverty-Trapped: French Traveller Accounts of Poverty in Ireland over the Centuries (Grace Neville) 8 Irish Studies in North America: Reflections (Eamonn Wall) 9 Irish Women’s Writing (Maureen O’Connor) 10 ‘Monuments of Its Own Magnificence’: Musicology within Irish Studies (Harry White) 11 New Directions in Short Fiction (Elke d’Hoker) 12 No Country for Young Girls?: Representations of Gender-Based Violence in Some Recent Fiction by Irish Women Writers (Sylvie Mikowski) 13 Northern Ireland’s Future(s) (Colin Coulter / Peter Shirlow) 14 ‘Real’ Language Policy in a Time of Crisis: Covid-19, the State and the Irish Language (John Walsh) 15 Reimagining Irish Film Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Ruth Barton) 16 Religion in Irish Studies (Catherine Maignant) 17 Sport and the Irish (Paul Rouse) 18 The Dawning of Difference: Literary and Cultural Theory in Irish Studies (Eugene O’Brien) 19 ‘The Words Will Come’: Today’s Legacies of the Great Irish Famine (Marguérite Corporaal) 20 Language, Time and the Improbable in Contemporary Ireland (Michael Cronin) 21 ‘What Would I Say, if I Had a Voice?’: The Irish Novel and the Articulation of Modernity (Derek Hand) Notes on Contributors