Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity

by McCarthy,Mark; McCarthy,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780754640127
• ISBN10: 0754640124
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
INTRODUCTION
1 Historico-Geographical Explorations of Ireland's Heritages: Towards a Critical Understanding of the Nature of Memory and Identity
Mark McCarthy	3	(52)
PART I: COMMEMORATION AND THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE
2 Commemorative Heritage and the Dialectics of Memory
Guy Reiner	55	(16)
3 A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness
John Morrissey	71	(18)
4 Memory and Identity in 'Irish' Australia: Constructing Alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1857-1873
Lindsay Proudfoot and Dianne Hall	89	(16)
5 Performing Irish-American Heritage: The Irish Historic Pageant, New York, 1913
Deborah Sugg Ryan	105	(18)
PART II: SPACES OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
6 Newgrange, Heritage and the Irish Nation: Two Moments of Transformation
David C. Harvey	123	(16)
7 Heritage, Rhetoric, Identity: Critical Reflections on the Carrickmines Castle Controversy
Tadhg O'Keeffe	139	(14)
8 Ireland and the House of Invented Memory
Hugh Maguire	153	(16)
9 Remembering the Creameries
Maura Cronin	169	(20)
PART III: HERITAGE, ECONOMY AND CONSTRUCTS OF IDENTITY
10 The Tourism Nexus: National Identity and the Meanings of Tourism Since the Irish Civil War
Eric G.E. Zuelow	189	(16)
11 Redefining Nation, Identity and Tradition: The Challenge for Ireland's National Museums
Gemma Reid	205	(18)
12 The Construction of Community through Heritage in Northern Ireland
Elizabeth Crooke	223	(12)
13 Identity Crisis? Heritage Construction, Tourism and Place Marketing in Ireland
Ruth McManus	235	(16)
Index	251