Ireland's heritages : critical perspectives on memory and identity /

Ireland's heritages : critical perspectives on memory and identity / edited by Mark McCarthy - [Aldershot] : Ashgate, [2005] - 268 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm - Heritage, culture and identity .

Includes selected conference papers Includes index

Commemoration and the politics of heritage -- Spaces of individual and collective memory -- Heritage, economy and constructs of identity

By addressing the relations between memory and cultural identity in Ireland, this book explores the way in which the past is remembered, marketed and commemorated through parades, monuments, public anniversaries, oral customs and literary texts.

9780754640127 9780754640127 £45.00


Cultural property--Protection--Ireland
Heritage tourism--Ireland
Irish--Ethnic identity
Cultural property--Protection--Ireland--Congresses
Heritage tourism--Ireland--Congresses
Irish--Ethnic identity--Congresses
Social & cultural history
Human geography
Language: reference & general
Library & information sciences / Museology
Cultural studies
Anthropology
Regional geography
Urban & municipal planning
Ireland


Ireland--Historiography
Ireland--Historiography--Congresses