期刊名称：Estudios Irlandeses : Journal of Irish Studies
电子版ISSN：1699-311X
出版年度：2007
期号：2
出版社：Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
摘要：It has not been a bad year with regard to books with an Irish content published in Spain or published elsewhere by Spanish scholars. The slow but steady count of monographs that invariably appear every year in this field is an indication that Irish studies occupy a significant space of their own in Spanish academic circles. A couple of significant factors have called my attention to this year's batch: the first is the highly specialized nature of some of the publications. May this be a sign of maturity, of coming of age, when the time of general introductions is long past? When one reads Carolina Amador's study of bilingualism and language shift in the early novels of Patrick MacGill, or the volume devoted to single motherhood in Ireland, edited by Ramblado-Minero and Pérez-Vides, one can hardly quarrel with this view of things. All right, then, let's enjoy the tranquil pleasures of adulthood, which also imply gracefully accepting (and entering into a fruitful dialogue with) the complexity of the topics under study, tending towards "an understanding of culture that makes space for confusion and misunderstanding as well as exactitude and objectivity" (C. Connolly, 2003. Theorizing Ireland. Houndmills: Palgrave, p. 2).
