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Irish Villages
This significant book is the first attempt to understand the problems of evolution of Irish villages from a local perspective. These essays contrast and compare particular villages from a wide geographical and temporal range, dealing with landlord villages, industrial villages, fishing villages and medieval villages.
The Strangers Gaze
This anthology brings together over four centuries of accounts of Coun ty Clare by visitors from Ireland, Britain, the continent, Australia and America. These visitors include such notables as Arthur Young, William Thackery and Thomas Carlyle. While their accounts set out to entertain and enlighten, they also provide insights into the social, religious, and cultural traditions of County Clare. By studying the procession of travellers through the country over the centuries, the histories of urban and rural communities are revealed in a fresh light.
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Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.
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Turning the Tune
The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind of pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. He begins by tracing its historical development from the days prior to the influx of visitors, through a period called "the Revival," in which traditional Irish music was revitalized and transformed, to the modern period, which is dominated by tourism. A large number of incomers, locally known as "blow-ins," have moved to the area, and the traditional Irish music is now largely performed and passed on by them. This fine-grained ethnographic study explores the commercialization of music and culture, the touristic consolidation and consumption of "place," and offers a critique of the trope of "authenticity," all in a setting of dramatic social change in which the movement of people is constant.
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