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This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. -- .

Table of Contents

1. Irish Travellers and the Nineteenth Century “Others”
2. The Traveller Colonised
3. Irish Travellers and the Bardic Tradition
4. Theoretical Perspectives and the Irish Context
5. Mapping “Difference”: Irish Travellers and the Questionaire
6. Travellers as Countercultural
7. Travellers in the Irish Imaginary: Contested Terrains
8. Anti-Traveller Prejudice: The Narrative within the Irish Imaginary
9. The Counter-Tradition and Symbolic Inversion
10. The Dichotomy of Self and Other: Some Considerations
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719083044, 978-0719083044
      ISBN10: 0719083044

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. -- .

      Table of Contents

      1. Irish Travellers and the Nineteenth Century “Others”
      2. The Traveller Colonised
      3. Irish Travellers and the Bardic Tradition
      4. Theoretical Perspectives and the Irish Context
      5. Mapping “Difference”: Irish Travellers and the Questionaire
      6. Travellers as Countercultural
      7. Travellers in the Irish Imaginary: Contested Terrains
      8. Anti-Traveller Prejudice: The Narrative within the Irish Imaginary
      9. The Counter-Tradition and Symbolic Inversion
      10. The Dichotomy of Self and Other: Some Considerations
      Bibliography

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