Irish Tourism

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. He is author of Across the Lines: Travel, Language and Translation (Cork University Press, 2000) and Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Identities (Cork University Press, 1996). He is co-editor of Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (Pluto Press, 2002) and Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (Cork University Press, 1993). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Tourism and Cultural Change and a member of the International Editorial Board of Language and Intercultural Communication.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 including media audiences/consumption and popular dance. 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).

• Contributors Introduction Part 1: Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities1. Moya Kneafsey: ‘If It Wasn’t for the Tourists We Wouldn’t Have an Audience’: The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo2. Ruth Casey: Defining the Local: The Development of an ‘Environment Culture’ in a Clare Village3. Bernadette Quinn: Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnection in Festival SettingsPart 2: Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices4. Mark McGovern: ‘The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant’: The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye5. Eamonn Slater: Constructing an Exotic ‘Stroll’ through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage Centre6. Barbara O’Connor: ‘Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande’: Tourism, Dance and GlobalisationPart 3: The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities7. Annette Jorgensen: Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses8. Máirín Nic Eoin: The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry GaeltachtPart 4: Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations9. Michael Cronin: Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the Word10. Stephanie Rains: Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism11. Justin Carville: Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural WorldPart 5: Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues12. Juliette Péchenart: Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment13. Spurgeon Thompson: ‘Not Only Beef, But Beauty . . . ’: Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925–30Index