Per Scribendum, Sumus Ethnopoesis, or: Writing Heritage. A Cèilidh in Honour of Mairéad Nic Craith

by Kockel, Ullrich; McDermott, Philip; Campbell, Liam

• ISBN13: 9783643913579
• ISBN10: 3643913575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-11-25
• Publisher: LIT Verlag

Summary

Mair'ead Nic Craith has sought to integrate critical heritage studies, cultural history, literature, and folklore into a creative ethnology. Issues of community and place, memory and nostalgia are key themes in her work. The tensions around forms, definitions, and uses of heritage are picked up in the contributions to this book. Research essays engage with the wide range of topics Mair'ead has explored. Other contributions note her support and mentoring or illustrate the author's appreciation of her work through prose, music, and artistic representations.

Author Biography

Ullrich Kockel teaches at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, the Latvian Academy of Culture and Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas. He is Emeritus Professor of Ethnology at Ulster University, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Mair'ead's anam cara. Philip McDermott is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Ulster University. He was Mair'ead's PhD student, succeeded her at Ulster University when she left to take up a chair at Heriot-Watt, and works with her on a range of projects. Liam Campbell has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University. He was Mair'ead's PhD student and continues to work with her on heritage-related issues.