1st Edition
Irish Digital Cultures Identity, Contexts, Space
Introduction, Deirdre Flynn and Mary McGill Part 1: Culture and Identity 1. Podcasting, Emigration, Return Migration and ‘Middle Ireland’ in the Wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Jarlath Regan’s An Irishman Abroad (2013-), Marcus Free; 2. Negotiating Black and Irish Identity in the digital space, Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro and Eric Ehigie; 3. Jacksepticeye: Irishness, Branding and YouTube Gaming, Shannon Lawlor; 4. Global Ireland and Digital Diversity: Creative Entrepreneurialism and the ‘Soft Power’ Platforming of the Diversity Ambassador, Kelly Davidson; 5. ‘Hot Asian Boy Summer!’: Performing Asian Irish Masculinities on TikTok, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain; 6. Representations of Ireland and Irishness on Alt Tech Platforms: Forty Shades of Green, but Just One Shade of White, Niamh Kirk and J. Clark Powers; 7. Hopeful Mobilities in Irish Creator Cultures, Tugce Bidav Part 2: Contexts and Spaces 8. Developing a “critical feminist” approach to digitally preserving reproductive health activism on the island of Ireland, Maeve O’Brien; 9. ‘Whatever we did get, we fought tooth and nail for’: Irish Independent and DIY Music Scenes in the Pandemic, Ciarán Ryan; 10. Digital Dramaturgies: Irish Theatre’s Pandemic Response, Ciara L. Murphy; 11. Non-human subjects, artificial intelligence, and the lyric voice in Irish poetry of the digital age: encounters with “skin-and-bone cousins”, Anne Karhio; 12. Globally Spread Eco-videos and Regionalised Appeals: Digital Audiences in Ireland and Uruguay, Victoria Gómez Márquez; 13. “Ireland, we are at war”: Conor McGregor, Mixed Martial Arts, and Far Right Populism in Ireland, Conor Heffernan; 14. CODA: Homegrown: Redefining digital Irish content, cultures and audience, Eleanor O’Leary
Biography
Deirdre Flynn is an inaugural member of Young Academy Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy and a lecturer in 21st Century Literature at MIC Limerick, Ireland. She has published widely on precarity, Irish Studies, migration. Her most recent co-edited collection The Routledge Handbook to Motherhood on Screen, with Dr Susan Liddy was published in 2025 with Routledge.
Mary McGill is a researcher at the University of Galway’s School of Law, Ireland, currently working on the Horizon Europe funded EMMELO Project: European Men, Masculinity and Extremist Leadership Online. She lectures at the Centre for Global Women’s Studies in the University of Galway’s School of Political Science and Sociology.
