—Volume 1: 1700-1780, ed. Moyra Haslett (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xv, 409pp.
—Volume 2: 1780-1830, ed. Claire Connolly (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xvi, 439pp.
—Volume 3: 1830-1880, ed. Matthew Campbell (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xiv, 317pp.
—Volume 4: 1880-1940, ed. Marjorie Elizabeth Howes (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xv, 381pp.
—Volume 5: 1940-1980, ed. Eve Patten (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xv, 391pp.
—Volume 6: 1980-2020, ed. Eric Falci & Paige Reynolds Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xix, 429pp.

Volume 1: 1700-1780, ed. Moyra Haslett (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020),[Prelims.] Contents (pp.v-vii); Illustrations (pp.viii-viii); Contributors (pp.ix-xii); Series Preface (pp.xiii-xiv); General Acknowledgements (pp.xv-xvi). Moyra Haslett, ‘Introduction’ (pp.1-28).
Part I: Starting Points (pp.29-88). 1: Marie-Louise Coolahan, ‘Starting Points and Moving Targets: Transition and the Early Modern’ (pp.31-48). 2: Ian Campbell Ross, ‘“We Irish”: Writing and National Identity from Berkeley to Burke’ (pp.49-67). 3: Brean Hammond, ‘Re-Viewing Swift’ (pp.68-88).
Part II: Philosophical and Political Frameworks (pp.89-148). 4: David Dwan, ‘The Prejudices of Enlightenment’ (pp.91-109). 5: Darrell Jones, ‘The Molyneux Problem and Irish Enlightenment’ (pp.110-128). 6: Helen M. Burke, ‘Samuel Whyte and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Irish Private Theatricals’ (pp.129-148).
Part III: Local, ‘National, ‘and Transnational Contexts (pp.149-224). 7: Andrew Carpenter, ‘Land and Landscape in Irish Poetry in English, ‘1700-1780’ (pp.151-170). 8: Conrad Brunström, ‘The Idea of an Eighteenth-Century National Theatre’ (pp.171-188). 9: Amy Prendergas, ‘‘Transnational Influence and Exchange: The Intersections between Irish and French Sentimental Novels’ (pp.189-206). 10: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, ‘‘An Example to the Whole World’: Patriotism and Imperialism in Early Irish Fiction’ (pp.207-224).
Part IV: Gender and Sexuality (pp.225-304). 11: Aileen Douglas, ‘The Province of Poetry: Women Poets in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland’ (pp.227-243). 12: Declan Kavanagh, ‘Queering Eighteenth-Century Irish Writing: Yahoo, Fribble, Freke’ (pp.244-262). 13: Rebecca Anne Barr, ‘“Brightest Wits and Bravest Soldiers”: Ireland, Masculinity, and the Politics of Paternity’ (pp.263-283). 14: Moyra Haslett, ‘Fictions of Sisterhood in Eighteenth-Century Irish Writing’ (pp.284-304).
Part V: Transcultural Contexts (pp.305-362). 15: Joe Lines, ‘The Popular Criminal Narrative and the Development of the Irish Novel’ (pp.307-323). 16: Anne Markey, ‘Gaelic Influences and Echoes in the Irish Novel, 1700-1780’ (pp.324-342). 17: Clíona Ó Gallchoir New Beginning or Bearer of Tradition? Early Irish Fiction and the Construction of the Child’ (pp.343-362 Part VI: Retrospective Readings’ (pp.363-400); 18: Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, ‘Re-Imagining Feminist Protest in Contemporary Translation: Lament for Art O’Leary and The Midnight Court’ (pp.365-381 19: James Ward, ‘‘Our Darkest Century’: The Irish Eighteenth Century in Memory and Modernity’ (pp.382-400). Index (pp.401-410).

Volume 2: 1780-1830, ed. Claire Connolly (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xvi, 439pp. Contents (pp.v-vii); Contributors (pp.viii-xii); Series Preface (pp.xiii-xiv); General Acknowledgements (pp.xv-xv); Acknowledgements (pp.xvi-xvi). Introduction: Claire Connolly, ‘Making Maps: Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830 (pp.1-34).
Part I: Origins (pp.35-66). 1: Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, ‘Gaelic Literature in Transition, 1780-1830’ (pp.37-51). 2: Norman Vance, ‘Irish Literature and Classical Modes’ (pp.52-66).
Part II: Transitions (pp.67-170). 3: Julia M. Wright, ‘Irish Literary Theory: From Politeness to Politics’ (pp.69-84). 4: Matthew Campbell, ‘Whigs, Weavers, and Fire-Worshippers: Anglophone Irish Poetry in Transition’ (pp.85-106). 5: David O’Shaughnessy, ‘Metropolitan Theatre’ (pp.107-121). 6: Adrian Paterson, ‘Harps and Pepperpots, Songs and Pianos: Music and Irish Poetry’ (pp.122-147). 7: Jennifer Orr, ‘Enlightened Ulster, Romantic Ulster: Irish Magazine Culture of the Union Era’ (pp.148-170).
Part III: Reputations (pp.171-320). 8: Harriet Kramer Linkin, ‘Placing Mary Tighe in Irish Literary History: From Manuscript Culture to Print’ (pp.173-187). 9: James Chandler, ‘Edgeworth and Realism’ (pp.188-205). 10: Nicola Lloyd, ‘Lady Morgan and “the babbling page of history”: Cultural Transition as Performance in the Irish National Tale’ (pp.206-225). 11: Jim Kelly, ‘“The diabolical eloquence of horror”: Maturin’s Wanderings’ (pp.226-241). 12: Gregory A. Schirmer, ‘English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the Poetry and Translations of J. J. Callanan’ (pp.242-256). 13: Jane Moore, ‘Thomas Moore and the Social Life of Forms’ (pp.257-272). 14: Willa Murphy, ‘English, “Irished”: Union and Violence in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim’ (pp.273-291). 15: Mark Corcoran, ‘The Transition of Reputation: Gerald Griffin’ (pp.292-305). 16: David E. Latané, ‘William Maginn: the Cork Correspondent’ (pp.306-320).
Part IV: Futures (pp.321-421). 17: Murray Pittock, ‘“My country takes her place among the nations of the earth”: Ireland and the British Archipelago in the Age of the Union’ (pp.323-341). 18: Joep Leerssen, ‘Mentalities in Transition: Irish Romanticism in European Context’ (pp.342-358). 19: Sonja Lawrenson, ‘Ireland and Empire: Popular Fiction in the Wake of the Union’ (pp.359-380). 20: Joseph Rezek, ‘Transatlantic Influences and Futures’ (pp.381-401). 21: Fiona Stafford, ‘The Literary Legacies of Irish Romanticism’ (pp.402-421). Select Index; Index (pp.422-440).

Volume 3: 1830-1880, ed. Matthew Campbell (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xiv, 326pp. Contents (pp.v-vi); Contributors (pp.vii-x); Series Preface (pp.xi-xii); General Acknowledgements (pp.xiii-xiii); Acknowledgements (pp.xiv-xiv).
’Part I: Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals (pp.1-58). 1: Matthew Campbell, ‘Victorian Ireland, 1830-1880: A Transition State’ (pp.3-21). 2: Jim Kelly, ‘Satire and Innovation between Dublin, Edinburgh and London’ (pp.22-37). 3: Melissa Fegan, ‘Young Ireland and Beyond’ (pp.38-58).
’Part II: Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences (pp.59-124). 4: Cóilín Parsons, ‘Naming the Place: The Ordnance Survey and Its Afterlives’ (pp.61-77). 5: Marguérite Corporaal, ‘Political Economy? The Economics and Sociology of Famine’ (pp.78-91). 6: Colin Barr, ‘Newman’s Irish University’ (pp.92-107). 7: Glenn Hooper, ‘The Charms of Ireland: Travel Writing and Tourism’ (pp.108-124).
Part III: From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish (pp.125-196). 8: John McCourt, ‘England and Ireland, Tory and Whig: Thackeray, Trollope, Arnold’ (pp.127-142). 9: Imperial Minds: Irish Writers and Empire in the Nineteenth Century - Charles Gavan Duffy, ‘Jim Shanahan, Thomas Moore, Charles Lever and Kim’ (pp.143-161). 10: James Quinn, ‘An Exiled History: Young Ireland from Mitchel to O’Leary’ (pp.162-178). 11: Peter D. O’Neill, ‘US Nation Building and the Irish-American Novel, 1830-1880’ (pp.179-196).
’Part IV: The Languages of Literature (pp.197-317). 12: Nicholas Wolf, ‘Antiquarians and Authentics: Survival and Revival in Gaelic Writing’ (pp.199-217). 13: Norman Vance, ‘Poetry and Its Audiences: Club, Street, Ballad’ (pp.218-237). 14: Raphaël Ingelbien, ‘Realism, Allegory, Gothic: The Irish Victorian Novel’ (pp.238-256). 15: Anna Pilz, ‘The Rise of the Woman Writer’ (pp.257-279). 16: Shaun Richards, ‘Dion Boucicault and the Globalised Irish Stage’ (pp.280-298). 17: Stephanie Rains, ‘Popular Prints’ (pp.299-317). Select Index (pp.318-326).

Volume 4: 1880-1940, ed. Marjorie Elizabeth Howes (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xv, 381pp. [Prelims.]; Contents (pp.v-vii); Select Contributors); Contributors (pp.viii-xii); Series Preface (pp.xiii-xiv); General Acknowledgements’ (pp.xv-xvi). 1: Marjorie Howes, Introduction (pp.1-18).
art I: Revisionary Foundations (pp.19-94). 2: Brian Ó Conchubhair, ‘The Apotheosis of the Vernacular: Language, Dialects and the Irish Revival' (pp.21-38). 3: Alex Davis, ‘Origins of Modern Irish Poetry, 1880-1922' (pp.39-54). 4: Paige Reynolds, ‘Theatrical Ireland: New Routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre’ (pp.55-72). 5: Vera Kreilkamp, ‘Recovery and the Ascendancy Novel 1880-1932’ (pp.73-94).
Part II: Revolutionary Forms (pp.95-170). 6: Niall Carson, ‘Print Culture Landscapes 1880-1922’ (pp.97-113). 7: Karen Steele, ‘Revolutionary Lives in the Rearview Mirror: Memoir and Autobiography’ (pp.114-132). 8: Lucy McDiarmid, ‘The Hugh Lane Controversy and the Irish Revival’ (pp.133-151). 9: Tina O’Toole, ‘New Irish Women and New Women’s Writing’ (pp.152-170).
Part III: Major Figures in Transition’ (pp.171-262). 10: Joseph Valente, ‘Ageing Yeats: From Fascism to Disability’ (pp.173-195). 11: Lauren Arrington, ‘"I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth’s novels": Gender, Power and the Domestic in Lady Gregory’s Work’ (pp.196-211). 12: Gregory Castle, ‘Synge and Disappearing Ireland' (pp.212-228). 13: Enda Duffy, ‘Drumcondra Modernism: Joyce’s Suburban Aesthetic’ (pp.229-245). 14: Nicholas Grene, ‘London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats’ (pp.246-262).
Part IV: Aftermaths and Outcomes’ (pp.263-336). 15: Mark Quigley, ‘Re-imagining Realism in Post-Independence Irish Writing’ (pp.265-284). 16: Lucy Collins, ‘The Free State of Poetry’ (pp.285-301). 17: Emily C. Bloom, ‘Live Wires and Dead Noise: Revolutionary Communications’ (pp.302-319). 18: Clair Wills, ‘The Dead, the Undead, and the Half-Alive: The Transition from Narrative Plot to Formal Trope in Late Modern Irish Writing’ (pp.320-336).
Part V: Frameworks in Transition (pp.337-374). 19: Gerry Smyth, ‘Irish Literary Criticism During the Revival’ (pp.339-355). 20: Peter Kuch, ‘Retrospective Readings: The Rise of Global Irish Studies’ (pp.356-374). Index (pp.375-382).

Volume 5: 1940-1980, ed. Eve Patten (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP 2020), xv, 391pp. [Prelims.] Contents (pp.v-vii); Contributors (pp.viii-xii); Series Preface (pp.xiii-xiv); General Acknowledgements (pp.xv-xvi). Eve Patten, Introduction (pp.1-24). ).
 Part I: After the War: Ideologies in Transition (pp.25-100). 1: Guy Woodward, ‘The War Observed’ (pp.27-45). 2: Brad Kent, ‘Outside the Whale: Seán O’Faoláin, Totalitarianism and the European Public Intellectual’ (pp.46-65). 3: Aidan O’Malley, ‘Irish Writers and Europe’ (pp.66-82). 4: Nicholas Allen, ‘Becoming a Republic: Irish Writing in Transition’ (pp.83-100).
Part II: Genres in Transition (pp.101-166)). 5: John Brannigan, ‘Intermodernism and the Middlebrow in Irish Writing’ (pp.103-118). 6: Muireann Leech, ‘Transitional Life-Writing: Frank O’Connor and the Autobiographical Tradition’ (pp.119-133). 7: Chris Morash, ‘“Somehow It Is Not the Same”: Irish Theatre and Transition’ (pp.134-149). 8: David Wheatley, ‘Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and the Literature of Absurdity’ (pp.150-166). Part III: Sex, Politics and Literary Protest (pp.167-232). 9: Eibhear Walshe, ‘Censorshi7p, Law and Literature’ (pp.169-184). 10: Frank Shovlin, ‘Sex, Dissent and Irish Fiction: Reading John McGahern’ (pp.185-200). 11: Emilie Pine, ‘History, Memory and Protest in Irish Theatre’ (pp.201-215). 12: Rosie Lavan, ‘Violence, Politics and the Poetry of the Troubles’ (pp.216-232).
Part IV: Identities and Connections (pp.233-306). 13: Máirín Nic Eoin, ‘State, Space and Experiment in Irish-Language Prose Writing’ (pp.235-254). 14: Heather Ingman, ‘Anglo-Ireland: the Big House Novel in Transition’ (pp.255-271 ). 15: Ellen McWilliams, ‘American-Irish Literary Relations’ (pp.272-287). 16: Tom Walker, ‘‘Home Rule in Our Literature’: Irish-British Poetic Relations’ (pp.288-306).
Part V. Retrospective Frameworks: Criticism in Transition (pp.307-376). 17: Paul Delaney, ‘Literary Biography in Transition’ (pp.309-328). 18: Paul Raphael Rooney, ‘Publishing, Penguin and Irish Writing’ (pp.329-343). 19: Margaret Kelleher, ‘Curriculum to Canon: Irish Writing and Education’ (pp.344-358). 20: Shaun Richards, ‘Critics, Criticism and the Formation of an Irish Literary Canon’ (pp.359-376). Index (pp.377-392 ).

 Volume 6: 1980-2020, ed. Eric Falci [Berkeley], Paige Reynolds [Holy Cross, Mass.] (Cambridge UP 2020); CONTENTS: Contents (pp.v-vii); Contributors (pp.viii-xiv); Preface (pp.xv-xvi); Gen. Acknowledgements (pp.xvii-xvii); Acknowledgements (pp.xviii-xx). Eric Falci, Paige Reynolds, Introduction (pp.1-24).
Part I: Times (pp.25-118). 1: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, ‘The Contemporary Conditions of Irish Language Literature’ (pp.27-43). 2: David Lloyd, ‘The Cultures of Poetry in Contemporary Ireland’ (pp.44-64). 3: Julia C. Obert, ‘Troubles Literature and the End of the Troubles’ (pp.65-80; Ch.4: Paige Reynolds, ‘Contemporary Irish Theatre and Media’ (pp.81-95). 5: Patricia Kennon, ‘Writing Childhood: Young Adult and Children’s Literature’ (pp.96-110); Select Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney; Coda: Eric Falci, ‘Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney’ (pp.111-118).
Part II: Spaces (pp.119-208). 6: Adam Hanna, ‘Habitations: Space, Place, Real Estate’ (pp.121-135). 7: Stefanie Lehner, ‘Crossings: Northern Irish Literature from Good Friday to Brexit’ (pp.136-151). 8: James Moran, ‘Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre’ (pp.152-167). 9: Ellen McWilliams, ‘Relocations: Diaspora, Travel, Migrancy’ (pp.168-181). 10: Anne Mulhall, ‘Arrivals: Inward Migration and Irish Literature’ (pp.182-200; Coda: Patrick Lonergan,Tom Murphy and Brian Friel’ (pp.201-208).
Part III: Forms of Experience (pp.209-304). 11: Joe Cleary, ‘The Irish Realist Novel’ (pp.211-227). 12: Diarmaid Ferriter, ‘Faith, Secularism, and Sacred Institutions’ (pp.228-245). 13: Sarah Townsend, ‘Writing the Tiger: Economics and Culture’ (pp.246-262). 14: Christopher Langlois, ‘Violence, Trauma, Recovery’ (pp.263-277). 15: Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly, Tom Lane, Modes of Witnessing and Ireland’s Institutional History’ (pp.278-294). Clair Wills, ‘Coda: Edna O’Brien and Eimear McBride pp.295-304
Part IV - Practices, Institutions, and Audiences’ (pp.305-400). 16: Rióna Ní Fhrighil, ‘Mediation and Translation in Irish Language Literature’ (pp.307-326). 17: Ronan McDonald, ‘Irish Studies and Its Discontents’ (pp.327-343). 18: Barry Monahan, ‘Historical Transitions in Ireland on Screen’ (pp.344-359). Millennium. 19: Stephen Watt, ‘Irish Blockbusters and Literary Stars at the End of the Millennium’ (pp.360-374). 20. Margaret Kelleher, ‘Contemporary Literature and Public Value’ (pp.375-391). Future Present. Paige Reynolds, ‘Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the Future Present’ (pp.392-400). Index (pp.401-430)

Part I: OVERVIEW. 1. Renée Fox, Mike Cronin & Brian Ó Conchubhair, Introduction: ‘Irish Studies from austerity to pandemic’; 2. John Waters, ‘Towards a history of Irish Studies in the United States’; 3. Michael Cronin, ‘Irish Studies in the non-Anglophone world’.
Part II: HISTORICIZING IRELAND. 4. Guy Beiner, ‘Irish Historical Studies Avant la Lettre: the antiquarian genealogy of interdisciplinary scholarship’; 5. Timothy G. McMahon, Separate and together: state histories in the twentieth century’; 6. Kelly Fitzgerald, Beyond the tale: folkloristics and folklore studies’; 7. Brian Ó Conchubhair, ‘The Irish Language and the Gaeltachtaí: illiberalism and neoliberalism; 8. Eoin O’Malley, ‘The great normalisation: success, failure and change in contemporary Ireland’; 9. Dominic Bryan & Gordon Gillespie, ‘Northern Ireland: more shared and more divided’.
Part III: GLOBAL IRELAND. 10. Mike Cronin, ‘Connections and capital: the diaspora and Ireland’s global networks’. 11. Liam Kennedy, Irish-America’; 12. Mary J. Hickman, ‘Irish Britain’; 13. Diane Negra & Anthony P. McIntyre, ‘Ireland Inc.’; 14. Martina Lawless, ‘Ireland, Europe, and Brexit’; 15. Kylie Jarrett, ‘Digital Ireland: leprechaun economics, Silicon Docks, and crisis.’
Part IV: IDENTITIES. 16. Lucy Michael, ‘Immigration and citizenship’; 17. Sarah L. Townsend, ‘The “new Irish” neighborhood: race and succession in Ireland and Irish America’; 18. Claire Bracken, ‘Gender and Irish Studies: 2008 to the present’; 19. Ed Madden, ‘Queering, querying Irish Studies’;  20. Oliver P. Rafferty, ‘The Catholic Church in Irish Studies’.
Part V: CULTURE. 21. Renée Fox, ‘Reading outside the lines: imagining new histories of Irish fiction’; 22. Eric Falci, ‘Lyric narratives: the experimental aesthetics of Irish poetry’; 23. Laura Farrell-Wortman, ‘The crisis and what comes after: post-Celtic Tiger theatre in a new Irish paradigm’; 24. Kelly Sullivan, ‘Material and visual culture in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland’; 25. Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, ‘“Mise Éire”: (re)imaginings in Irish Music Studies’; 26. Paul Rouse, ‘Sport and Irishness in a new millennium’.
Part VI: THEORIZING. 27. Nessa Cronin, ‘Environmentalities: speculative imaginaries of the Anthropocene’; 28. Maureen O’Connor, ‘Irish animal studies at the turn of the twenty-first century’; 29. Elizabeth Grubgeld, ‘Contemporary Irish Studies and the impact of disability’; 30. Emma Radley ‘Irish media and representations: new critical paradigms’; 31. Seán Kennedy, ‘Totem and Taboo in Tipperary? Irish shame and neoliberal crisis in Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart’.
Part VII: LEGACY. 32. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan. ‘Trauma and recovery in the Post-Celtic Tiger Period: recuperating the parent-child bond in contemporary Irish fiction’; 33. Margot Gayle Backus and Joseph Valente, ‘Abused Ireland: psychoanalyzing the enigma of sexual innocence’; 34. Margaret O’Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh, ‘Surplus to requirements? the ageing body in contemporary Irish writing’; 35. Brian Ward. ‘From Full Irish to FREESPACE: Irish architecture in the twenty-first century’; 35. Mike Cronin. ‘Repackaging history and mobilizing Easter 1916: commemorations in a time of downturn and austerity’; 37. Malcolm Sen, An ordinary crisis: SARS-CoV-2 and Irish Studies’.