This is an an authoritative, up-to-date account of the development of Irish Studies over the past two decades.

The authors examine the key debates that have underpinned recent scholarship and analyse critical concerns that have shaped the subjects remarkable growth.

They trace the institutional fortunes of Irish Studies in Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia and Britain and features in-depth critical accounts of specific trends and themes within Irish historiography, literary criticism, religion, migration, music, cultural geography, sport and media culture.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: where Irish Studies is bound by Liam Harte
Part I: Irish Studies in Practice
1. Changing transatlantic contexts and contours: Irish Studies in the United States by Christina Hunt Mahony
2. Re-configuring Irish Studies in Canada: writing back to the centre by Michael Kenneally
3. 10,000 miles away: Irish Studies Down Under by Elizabeth Malcolm
4. 'Our revels now are ended': Irish Studies in Britain - origins and aftermath by Shaun Richards
5. Teaching Irish Studies in Ireland: after the end by Michael Brown
Part II: Irish Studies in Critical Perspective
6. The intellectual and the state: Irish criticism since 1980 by Conor McCarthy
7. Forty shades of grey?: Irish historiography and the challenges of
multidisciplinarity by Mary E. Daly
8. The religious field in contemporary Ireland: identity, being religious and symbolic domination by Tom Inglis
9. 'A decent girl well worth helping': women, migration and unwanted pregnancy by Louise Ryan
10. Beating the bounds: mapping an Irish mediascape by Lance Pettitt
11. Placing geography in Irish Studies: symbolic landscapes of spectacle and memory by Yvonne Whelan and Liam Harte
12. Listening to the future: music and Irish Studies by Gerry Smyth
13. Beyond sectarianism: sport and Irish culture by Mike Cronin
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