Ireland's Heritages : Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Historico-Geographical Explorations of Ireland's Heritages: Towards a Critical Understanding of the Nature of Memory and Identity -- PART I: COMMEMORATION AND THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE -- 2 Commemorative Heritage and the Dialectics of Memory -- 3 A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness -- 4 Memory and Identity in 'Irish' Australia: Constructing Alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1857-1873 -- 5 Performing Irish-American Heritage: The Irish Historic Pageant, New York, 1913 -- PART II: SPACES OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 6 Newgrange, Heritage and the Irish Nation: Two Moments of Transformation -- 7 Heritage, Rhetoric, Identity: Critical Reflections on the Carrickmines Castle Controversy -- 8 Ireland and the House of Invented Memory -- 9 Remembering the Creameries -- PART III: HERITAGE, ECONOMY AND CONSTRUCTS OF IDENTITY -- 10 The Tourism Nexus: National Identity and the Meanings of Tourism Since the Irish Civil War -- 11 Redefining Nation, Identity and Tradition: The Challenge for Ireland's National Museums -- 12 The Construction of Community through Heritage in Northern Ireland -- 13 Identity Crisis? Heritage Construction, Tourism and Place Marketing in Ireland -- Index.

This book is the first sustained attempt to incorporate critical scholarship and thought at the cutting edge of contemporary geography, history and archaeology into the burgeoning field of Irish heritage studies. The book also investigates the memorialisation and marketing of the Irish past in overseas locations such as the USA and Australia.

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