Featuring over 500 entries, the Encyclopedia brings conceptions of Irish identity fully up-to-date and in to line with developments in modern, or post-modern Irish Culture.

Culture is defined in its broadest sense to include: film, literature, visual arts, performing arts, architecture and heritage, music, vernacular culture, history, kitsch, tourism and leisure, religion, politics, sport, language, national identities, food and drink and the media. The Encyclopedia includes a thematic entry list where entries are listed by category, suggestions for further reading after each entry, a comprehensive system of cross-referencing linking connected entries to one another and an extensive index. These invaluable tools help navigate the reader through the Encyclopedia and on to further study.

1798
abortion
abstraction in art
Adams, Gerry
adult and
further education
advertising
agribusiness
agricultural policy
agriculture
Ahern, Bertie
Allen, Darina and the Ballymaloe Phenomenon
Alliance Party
American Conference for
Irish Studies
An Gael
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Angela's Ashes
Anglo-Irish Agreement
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Aontach
Eireann
architectural, innovations
architecture
architecture in the landscape
Articles 2 and 3
Arts Council
arts funding
assessment and certification
Australia, history
ballet
Ballroom of Romance
ballrooms
Banville, John
Barr,
Glenn
Beckett, Samuel
Beef Tribunal
Behan, Brendan
Bell, The
Bell-Burnell, Jocelyn
Bernal, J. D.
Binchy, Maeve
Birmingham Six
Blaney, Neil
Blarney
Bloody Sunday
blueshirts
Boland, Eavan
Boland, Kevin
Bono
border, the
Boston, Celtics
brain drain
British newspapers in Ireland
British Policy
Brooke, Basil
Brothers McMullen, The
Browne, Noel
Bruton, John
B-Specials
Built Heritage
Burns, Edward
Byrne, Gabriel
Cagney, James
Catholic church, role of
Catholocism
Ceallaigh, Sean TO
ceilithe
Celtic Tiger
Celtic Tiger in the US
celtiicism and new age culture
censorship
censorship and print media
charismatic movement
child abuse
Childers, Erskine
childhood/child care
children's literature
Chuilleanain, Eilean Ni
cinema
Civil Rights/Emergency Legislation
Civil War
Clan na Gael
Clan na Poblachta
Clancy Brothers
Clann na Talmahan
Clarke, Austin
Clarke, Chichester James
class
classical music
clientelism
Coimisium le Rinnci Gaelacha
Coleman, James
colonial/regional issues
Commitments, The
community arts
Connolly, James
constitution
consumer society
contraception
corporal punishment
corporatists ideology and social partnership
Cosgrave, Liam
Cosgrave, W. T.
Costello, John A
craic, the
Craig, James
Craig, William
Crane Bag
crime
critical debates
Crotty Case
Culchies
cultural funding
cultural policy
culture, Irish political
Cumann Na nGaedheal
Daley, Richard
Dance Halls Act
dance, contemporary
dance, traditional
Dancing at the Crossroads
de Valera, Eamon
Dead, The
death
Democratic Left
Democratic Unionist Party
Dempsey, Jack
development assistance
development education
developments in national education policy
Devil in the Dancehalls

Devil's Own, The
Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ni
diaspora
diaspora,
Irish-American
diasporic writing
diasporic, community
divorce
Doherty, Willie
domestic violence and rape
Downing Street Declaration
Doyle, Roddy
drama
drama and theatre in education
Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies
'Dublin novel'
Durcan, Paul
early childhood education
Eastern Canadian material culture
economic war
education/Gaelscoileanna
educational change
Eire-Ireland
elections
Electoral system
emigration
employment
employment, Irish in Britain
envoy
equal pay
equality
Ervine, David
ESRI
ethnic identities
ethnic mobilization
EU
European integration
export