The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture

This book is the seventh volume from the series Cambridge Companions to Culture. To date volumes have appeared on Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Latin American culture. The format presents essays by scholars in their various fields with a list of pertinent additional reading appended to each chapter.

The ambitious aim of this volume is to capture an overview of modern Irish culture in all its complexity and variety from 1800‐2000. However, Joe Cleary in his introduction admits that comprehensiveness over a two‐century stretch is impossible, and he presents the compilation as accessible surveys that are also scholarly,...