Synopses & Reviews
Ireland Beyond Boundaries provides an authoritative, up-to-date account of the development of Irish Studies over the past two decades. The fourteen contributors examine some of the key debates that have underpinned recent scholarship and analyse critical concerns that have shaped the subjects remarkable growth. The book is divided into two parts. Part One traces the institutional fortunes of Irish Studies in Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia and Britain. Part Two features in-depth critical accounts of specific trends and themes within Irish historiography, literary criticism, religion, migration, music, cultural geography, sport and media culture. Throughout the collection there is a recurring engagement with the role of interdisciplinary approaches within Irish Studies and its impact on teaching and research. Combining synoptic overviews with informed analyses, Ireland Beyond Boundaries is an essential text for all those working in the field.
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Lively account of how Irish Studies has developed over the past 20 years covering key themes from religion to media and cultural geography.
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Furedi finds a disturbingly deep conservative agenda stifling the experimental and new ideas around the studying of history._x000B_
About the Author
Liam Harte is Lecturer in Irish and Modern Literature at the University of Manchester. He has published widely on twentieth-century Irish literature and is the editor of Modern Irish Autobiography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and co-editor of Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005) and Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). 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: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005).
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: where Irish Studies is bound
Liam Harte
Part I: Irish Studies in Practice
1 Changing transatlantic contexts and contours: Irish Studies in the United States
Christina Hunt Mahony
2 Re-configuring Irish Studies in Canada: writing back to the centre
Michael Kenneally
3 10,000 miles away: Irish Studies Down Under
Elizabeth Malcolm
4 'Our revels now are ended': Irish Studies in Britain - origins and aftermath
Shaun Richards
5 Teaching Irish Studies in Ireland