Crossing Ireland’s Boundaries, Real and Imagined

Abstract

social, political and economic landscape of contemporary Ireland has extensive scholarly debate both within and well beyond the interdisciplinary field of Irish Studies. National and international academic research has struggled to stay apace with a rapidly transforming demographic where shockwaves of economic upheaval and rapid social change have complicated ongoing projects of identity construction. Remarkable about this scholarly work, however, is its distinct lack of a self-consciously philosophical voice. While scholars from literary studies to law have engaged comprehensively with the complexities of a post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, scholars from philosophy have for the most part neglected to intervene.