This short article provides an auto-ethnographic perspective on the history of Irish sociology. It is based on the author's experience of Irish sociology, including: experiences as an undergraduate student in the late 1980s and later as a research assistant;a PhD in the US during the 1990s, starting during mass emigration but completed as the ?Celtic Tiger? emerged and sociology grew;5 years in Ireland as a head of department, leading up to the financial crash and the decade between crash and COVID-19. Finally, the article concludes with some general observations about sociology in Ireland today, its promise and the perils that face it.
The ongoing project of Irish sociology