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Boyle, Elizabeth, Collins, Chelsey, Krivoshchekova, Victoria, Lee, Seungyeon, Nguyen, Truc Ha and Silva, Tiago Veloso (2024) Decolonising Medieval Irish Studies. Irish Journal of Sociology, 32 (1-2). pp. 66-78. ISSN 0791-6035
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Abstract
This short article reviews some of the colonial underpinnings of the field of Medieval Irish Studies (a subdiscipline of Celtic Studies), using the career of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) as a case study in the entanglements between British colonial activity in India and the development of philological research on medieval Irish literature in the 19th century. It then proceeds to use autoethnographic reflections from graduate students in the field of Medieval Irish Studies whose backgrounds locate them at various intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. These reflections offer constructive pathways toward working to decolonise the discipline.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Medieval; Irish; Ireland; Celtic Studies; Whitley Stokes; decolonisation; academia; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Celtic Studies > Early Irish (Sean Ghaeilge) |
| Item ID: | 20051 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1177/07916035241264080 |
| Depositing User: | Elizabeth Boyle |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2025 14:12 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Irish Journal of Sociology |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20051 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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