Impressive introduction to modern Irish culture

The Cambridge Companion To Modern Irish Culture, edited by Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly, Cambridge University Press, NPG, €24.80.

Anyone expecting the Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture to be as simple a reference tool as something like Professor Robert Welch's Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, maybe disappointed.

While Welch provided a concise, detailed A-to-Z listing of major works and figures in Irish literature, this new book consists more of a broad and ...