This article
discusses the development and current state of utopian studies in Ireland. It
frames utopian studies in the Irish context as an evolving interdisciplinary
space, facilitating both innovations within established scholarly discussions and
dialogues beyond received boundaries – including that between academic
scholarship and social critique. Without any pretension to exhaustiveness, it
surveys a number of areas of teaching and research in Irish Higher Education
which actively engage with the open paradigm of utopian studies, and indicates
a number of currently live questions.