Irish Tourism : Image Culture and Identity

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