In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement and the booming economy of the Celtic Tiger years there was a sense that Ireland had normalized and joined the mainstream of neoliberal global nations. One result was an apparent downturn in scholarly interest in Ireland and Irish Studies. However, in the wake of the economic downturn and the years of austerity from 2008, the social liberalization of the Irish Republic and the ongoing assessment of the island’s history of abuse and containment, Irish Studies appears to have been rejuvenated. So why all the noise about Irish Studies and what does it say about the future of the discipline?

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