Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of "Irish culture" in the domains of language, music, dance, and sports. The author's theoretical [...]
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Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of "Irish culture" in the domains of language, music, dance, and sports. The author's theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social reproduction of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethno-national conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.