In line with the journal’s titular mandate, this special issue provides productive reflections and amplifications of the deficiencies attendant to canonical Irish–South African relations in general, indicating ways in which these relations can be further expansively and inclusively re-read. Each of the essays here is refreshingly instructive and utilizes an innovative, disruptive approach that paves the way for critically dialogic comparative postcolonial scholarship. Co-editor Coilín Parsons’ injunction, then, that it is time to “revisit the architecture on which Irish–South African comparison is built, and to seek both new methods and archives,” resonates in the different thematic foci and diverse methodological and analytical approaches developed and demonstrated in the issue. Situating these essays within (current) shifting global (identity) politics and realities as this special issue does, renders it not just timely; it points to an otherwise responsive and engaged (re)imagination of established Irish–South African hermeneutic and representative templates and models.

与该期刊的名义要求相一致，本期特刊对典型的爱尔兰－南非关系伴随的缺陷进行了富有成效的反思和放大，指出了可以进一步扩大和包括这些关系的方式。这里的每篇论文都令人耳目一新，并采用了创新的，破坏性的方法，为批判性对话后殖民比较学术铺平了道路。共同编辑CoilínParsons的禁令则是时候“重新审视建立爱尔兰和南非比较的体系结构，并寻求新方法和新档案了”，这在不同的主题焦点以及各种方法论和分析学上引起了共鸣。在问题中开发和演示的方法。正如本期特刊所做的那样，将这些论文置于（当前的）不断变化的全球（身份）政治和现实之中。它指出了建立的爱尔兰-南非诠释学和代表性模板和模型的另一种反应灵敏的（重新）想象。