Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities
6. 1. ‘If It Wasn’t for the Tourists We Wouldn’t Have an Audience’: The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo 21
7. 2. Defining the Local: The Development of an ‘Environment Culture’ in a Clare Village 42
8. 3. Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnection in Festival Settings 61
9. Part 2: Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices
10. 4. ‘The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant’: The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye 83
11. 5. Constructing an Exotic ‘Stroll’ through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage Centre 104
12. 6. ‘Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande’: Tourism, Dance and Globalisation 122
13. Part 3: The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities
14. 7. Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses 141
15. 8. The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry Gaeltacht 158
16. Part 4: Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations
17. 9. Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the Word 179
18. 10. Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism 196
19. 11. Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural World 215
20. Part 5: Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues
21. 12. Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment 241
22. 13. ‘Not Only Beef, But Beauty . . . ’: Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925–30 263
23. Index 282