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Irish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Ireland about their new books.
March 22, 2026
Irish Digital Cultures
Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space (Routledge, 2025) explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environm…
March 4, 2026
Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain
Throughout the twentieth century, many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. …
March 3, 2026
Music Refuge
How can music change people’s lives? In Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music (Oxford UP, Press 2025) Ailbhe Kenny, an Associate Professor in Musi…
February 22, 2026
Making Empire
Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states…
February 14, 2026
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025) is the first sustained critical analysis of the representat…
February 11, 2026
Thirty-Two Words for Field
Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and br…
February 8, 2026
Documenting Irish Feminisms
Linda Connolly is a professor of sociology at Maynooth University, with research focusing on gender, Irish society, family studies, migration, and Iri…
January 3, 2026
Race, Politics, and Irish America
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford UP, 2023), which inserts successive Irish-Ameri…
December 21, 2025
Irish Lacemaking
Following the career of the Irish lace designer and inspector Emily Anderson (1856-1948), Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice (Bloom…
November 16, 2025
LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland
“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neighbor…
October 30, 2025
Glenn Patterson
In Belfast, good fences can make for bad neighbors. David Cunningham ( Wash U. sociologist, author of There’s Something Happening Here and Klansville…
October 19, 2025
U2
Bradley Morgan’s U2: Until the End of the World (Gemini Books, 2025) celebrates fifty years of U2 with a career-spanning retrospective featuring more…
October 14, 2025
Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature
Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers (Routledge, 2024) addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially mas…
October 1, 2025
Speranza
Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde (Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Eibhear Walshe and Dr. Eleanor Fitzsimons is the first contemporary edition of the poetry of…
September 11, 2025
Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club
In this interview, Dr. Deirdre Brady discusses her recent book, Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933-1958) (Liverpool UP, 2021).…
September 10, 2025
Love in the Lav
Averill Earls is an associate professor in history at St. Olaf’s College and her research focuses on sexuality and modern Ireland. Her writing has app…
August 17, 2025
All Future Plunges to the Past
All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and …
August 9, 2025
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
In The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Terri Diane Halperin has provided a political …
August 2, 2025
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Un…
July 15, 2025
The Celts
Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turke…