Irish Tourism Image Culture and Identity

by Cronin, Michael; O'Connor, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781873150535
• ISBN10: 1873150539
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-20
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

This book is a collection of essays that examines the social, political and cultural impact of tourism on Irish society. Irish Tourism deals with both the historical experience of Irish tourism and with the contemporary influence of tourism on different areas of Irish life and cultural self-representation. The work situates the developments in Irish tourism within the broader context of globalisation and the role of tourism in a changing international order.

Author Biography

Michael Cronin is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies and Dean of the Joint Faculty of Humanities, Dublin City University. His publications include Across the Lines: Travel, Language and Translation (Cork University Press, 2000) and Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Identities (Cork University Press, 1996). Barbara O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications, Dublin City University. She has published widely on Irish tourism and other aspects of Irish popular culture. She is co-editor of Gender in Irish Society (Galway University Press, 1987), Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (Cork University Press, 1993) and, Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity (University College Dublin Press, 1997)

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(20)
Part 1: Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities
`If It Wasn't for the Tourists We Wouldn't Have an Audience': The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo	21	(21)
Moya Kneafsey
Defining the Local: The Development of an `Environment Culture' in a Clare Village	42	(19)
Ruth Casey
Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnection in Festival Settings	61	(22)
Bernadette Quinn
Part 2: Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices
`The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant': The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye	83	(21)
Mark McGovern
Constructing an Exotic `Stroll' through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage Centre	104	(18)
Eamonn Slater
`Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande': Tourism, Dance and Globalisation	122	(19)
Barbara O'Connor
Part 3: The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities
Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses	141	(17)
Annette Jorgensen
The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry Gaeltacht	158	(21)
Mairin Nic Eoin
Part 4: Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations
Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the Word	179	(17)
Michael Cronin
Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism	196	(19)
Stephanie Rains
Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural World	215	(26)
Justin Carville
Part 5: Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment	241	(22)
Juliette Pechenart
`Not Only Beef, But Beauty . . .': Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925--30	263	(19)
Spurgeon Thompson
Index	282