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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779841103321

Autore

Zenker Olaf

Titolo

Irish/ness is all around us [[electronic resource] ] : language revivalism and the culture of ethnic identity in Northern Ireland / / Olaf Zenker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2013

ISBN

0-85745-914-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Integration and Conflict Studies ; ; 6

Integration and conflict studies ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

427/.9416

Soggetti

English language - Dialects - Northern Ireland

Group identity - Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. The Irish language in Catholic West Belfast -- pt. II. Irish identity in Catholic West Belfast.

Sommario/riassunto

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 (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to rea