Utopian Studies in Ireland

This article discusses the development and current state of utopian studies in Ireland. It frames utopian studies in the Irish context as an evolving interdisciplinary space, facilitating both innovations within established scholarly discussions and dialogues beyond received boundaries—including that between academic scholarship and social critique. Without any pretention to exhaustiveness, it surveys a number of areas of teaching and research in Irish higher education that actively engage with the open paradigm of utopian studies and indicates a number of currently live questions.