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In this exploration of Irish literature from roughly the 18th century to the present, we’ll research how material political struggles revolutionize literary production and how aesthetic conditions shape new polemical horizons for social or political belonging. We will focus on the long history of anti-colonial struggle in Irish history, with a nested emphasis on the reality and figure of the Northern Irish border, from Partition to Brexit. We’ll consider theories of borderlands, boundaries, and translations, as well as ask how topography and sociology collide across Irish and English histories. Poetry, drama, ethnography, manifesto, fiction, and more will help us to query how Irish literature articulates the perils of sectarian strife, dynamism of exilic imaginaries, and crises of colonial and post-colonial life.