This text seeks to advance Irish studies by stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue between general Irish studies and gender studies. The famine, Republicanism, queer studies, and emigration to England are all examined through a gendered lens, as gender is the crucial analytical thread that ties local action, through a complex web of commodity chains, to the overall development of the world economy. By mainstreaming gender into the state, political economy, culture, and the Diaspora, this volume provides a feminist revision of Irish studies which challenges masculinized modes of cognition to rethink reality in gendered terms. The book provides an introduction to major theoretical concerns as well as a revision of the modern Irish and diasporic experience.