1. Introduction Paige Reynolds; Part I. Legacies: 2. People: race and class on the contemporary Irish stage Michael Pierse; 3. Nation: reconciliation and the politics of friendship in post-troubles literature Stefanie Lehner; 4. Migration: migrant artists changing the rules in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland Charlotte McIvor; 5. Language: 'world literature' and contemporary Irish language writing Máirín Nic Eoin; 6. Land: neoliberal wastelands in contemporary post-apocalyptic Irish cinema Emma Radley; Part II. Contemporary Conditions: 7. The global contemporary: the humanitarian legacy in Irish fiction Matthew Eatough; 8. The queer contemporary: time and temporality in queer writing Ed Madden; 9. The feminist contemporary: the contradictions of critique Claire Bracken; 10. The maternal contemporary: pregnancy, maternity, and non-maternity on the Irish stage Emilie Pine; 11. The aging contemporary: aging families and generational connections in Irish writing Margaret O'Neill and Michaela Schrage-Früh; Part III. Forms and Practices: 12. Ireland's real economy: post-crash fictions of the Celtic Tiger Adam Kelly; 13. Northern Irish poetry Eric Falci; 14. Essayism in contemporary Ireland Julie Bates; 15. Killers, lovers, and teens: contemporary genre fiction Susan Cahill; 16. 'One hundred years a nation': new modes of commemoration Margaret Kelleher; 17. Coda: a new Irish studies Paige Reynolds.