Welcome to Estudios Irlandeses, the scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies.

We are happy to launch Issue 3, which gathers a wide range of original work —fifteen articles and two interviews— by established and by emerging academic figures from nine different countries. Our hearty thanks to all the contributors. And our invitation to people doing research in the broad discipline of Irish Studies to submit their work for the forthcoming issues.

In March 2005 the journal made an  auspicious start with a special inaugural Issue 0 containing fifteen essays which set a high standard of scholarship. As the third issue sees the light, the site has received some 9,000 visits,   and the aim  for  which  Estudios Irlandeses was  conceived —to be an international forum for original research in the field of Irish Studies— has come to fruition.

Moreover, the fact that the journal comes out once a year gives us the opportunity of offering comprehensive reviews of the previous year's output of Irish cinema and of Irish studies publications in Spain, as well as a selection of the massive Irish-related bibliography generated round the world. Thanks to the editors of the three sections, Tony Tracy, José Fco Fernández, and David Pierce for their dedication and good work. My deepest gratitude also to the members of the Editorial Board for supplying valuable feedback and advice to authors.  

Rosa González

General Editor

March 2008