Ireland's heritages : critical perspectives on memory and identity / edited by Mark McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, Mark (Lecturer in heritage studies)

Series:

Heritage, culture, and identity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Irish.

Heritage tourism--Ireland.

Heritage tourism.

Historic sites--Ireland.

Historic sites.

Memorials--Ireland.

Memorials.

Ireland--Historiography.

Ireland.

Historiography.

Ireland--Anniversaries, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]

Contents:

Historico-geographical explorations of Ireland's heritages : towards a critical understanding of the nature of memory and identity / Mark McCarthy

Commemorative heritage and the dialectics of memory / Guy Beiner

A lost heritage : the Connaught Rangers and multivocal Irishness / John Morrissey

Memory and identity in 'Irish' Australia : constructing alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1855-1873 / Lindsay Proudfoot and Dianne Hall

Performing Irish-American heritage : the Irish historic pageant, New York, 1913 / Deborah Sugg Ryan

Newgrange, heritage and the Irish nation : two moments of transformation / David C. Harvey

Heritage, rhetoric, identity : critical reflections on the Carrickmines Castle controversy / Tadhg O'Keeffe

Ireland and the house of invented memory / Hugh Maguire

Remembering the creameries / Maura Cronin

The tourism nexus : national identity and the meanings of tourism since the Irish Civil War / Eric E. Zuelow

Redefining nation, identity and tradition : the challenge for Ireland's national museums / Gemma Reid

The construction of community through heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke

Identity crisis? heritage construction, tourism and place marketing in Ireland / Ruth McManus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754640124

OCLC:

56682619