Ireland's Heritages

Dr Mark McCarthy is a Lecturer in Heritage Studies, at the School of Humanities, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology at Galway, Republic of Ireland.

Contents: Introduction: Historico-geographical explorations of Ireland's heritages: towards a critical understanding of the nature of memory and identity, Mark McCarthy. Commemoration And The Politics Of Heritage: Commemorative heritage and the dialectics of memory, Guy Beiner; A lost heritage: the Connaught Rangers and multivocal Irishness, John Morrissey; Memory and identity in 'Irish' Australia: constructing alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1857-1873, Lindsay Proudfoot and Dianne Hall; Performing Irish-American heritage: the Irish historic pageant, New York, 1913, Deborah Sugg Ryan. Spaces Of Individual And Collective Memory: Newgrange, heritage and the Irish nation: two moments of transformation, David C. Harvey; Heritage, rhetoric, identity: critical reflections on the Carrickmines Castle controversy, Tadhg O'Keeffe; Ireland and the house of invented memory, Hugh Maguire; Remembering the creameries, Maura Cronin. Heritage, Economy And Constructs Of Identity: The tourism nexus: national identity and the meanings of tourism since the Irish Civil War, Eric E. Zuelow; Redefining nation, identity and tradition: the challenge for Ireland's national museums, Gemma Reid; The construction of community through heritage in Northern Ireland, Elizabeth Crooke; Identity crisis? heritage construction, tourism and place marketing in Ireland, Ruth McManus; Index.