Overview
A unique anthropological frame that privileges individual experiences of Irish diasporic identity
Examines “Irishness” as related to and distinct from “Europeanness”
Probes questions of authenticity, language, geography, culture, mobility, gender, and identity
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The first anthropological account of the Irish diaspora in Europe in the 21st century, this book provides a culture-centric examination of the Irish diaspora. Focusing less on an abstract or technical definition of Irish self-identification, the author allows members of this group to speak through vignettes and interview excerpts, providing an anthropological lens that allows the reader to enter a frame of self-reference. This book therefore provides architecture to understand how diasporic communities might understand their own identities in a new way and how they might reconsider the role played by mobility in changing expressions of identity. Providing firsthand, experiential and narrative insight into the Irish diaspora in Europe, this volume promises to contribute an anthropological perspective to historical accounts of the Irish overseas, theoretical works in Irish studies, and sociological examinations of Irish identity and diaspora.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium
Book Subtitle: Belonging, Identity and Community in Europe
Authors: Sean O’ Dubhghaill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24147-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24146-9Published: 01 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24149-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24147-6Published: 22 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 209
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Migration, Sociology of Culture