Where and what is Ireland?--What are the identities of the people of Ireland?--How has
European Union membership shaped Irish people's lives and interests?--How global is local …

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 …

Stephen Dedalus leaving his family home to begin the slow perambulation through Dublin's
city streets that will take him to the university. As he walks away from the house, Stephen …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Family rhythms Page 3 Page 4 Family rhythms The changing textures of
family life in Ireland Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty and David Ralph Manchester University Press …

Curriculum and the Cultural Body extends the discussion of body knowledge by attending to
the unspoken questions and practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit bodies …

This book is a collection of studies on mental health services in Ireland from the beginning of
the nineteenth century to the present day. Essays cover overall trends in patient numbers, an …

A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural
life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by …

Irish families were characterized as being patriarchal, stem-extended, large, strong, and
stable for much of the twentieth century. Studies completed during the 1930s and 1940s …

Knowledge, they say, is power. One manifestation of the power of the Catholic Church within
the independent Irish state in the middle decades of the twentieth century was the virtual …

Here I offer a reengagement with Conrad Arensberg and Solon Kimball's (Arensberg 1968
[1937]; Arensberg and Kimball 1940) canonical ethnographies of rural western Ireland along …