Two Boston College Irish Studies Program faculty members contributed articles to a special edition of New Literary History, a Journal of Theory and Interpretation. The edition is focused on ‘Irish Keywords’ and marks the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ iconic Keywords: A Vocabulary of  Culture and Society. Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies Guy Beiner wrote an essay that explores the keyword ‘seanchas,’ an Irish term meaning vernacular knowledge of history, memory, and tradition. Professor of the Practice Robert Savage penned an essay that addresses the keyword ‘Troubles.’ This term is used to describe recent unrest in Northern Ireland and is also a keyword used to define rebellions roiling the British Empire at the conclusion of World War II. Beiner is the author of the prize-winning books Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory and Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster. An expert on contemporary Irish and British history, Savage is the author of several publications, including the book Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain.