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All Changed? Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland

Cultúr agus Féiniúlacht in Éirinn an Lae Inniu

ISBN: 9780956837905 pb.

Editors: Pádraig Ó Duibhir, Rory Mc Daid and Andrew O’Shea

Publisher: Duras Press

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Lectures from the Fifth Seamus Heaney Lecture Series

These essays were first delivered as lectures in the fifth Seamus Heaney Lecture Series in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, under the theme of Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland. This theme was chosen to provide an opportunity to engage in a critical debate on the nature of Irish civil society and on the framing and shaping of policies, perspectives and public opinions. A range of internationally renowned academics together with activists from, and working in, marginalised communities in Ireland were invited to address these issues. The resultant essays respond to the complexity of issues relating to culture and identity from a number of inter-related perspectives and traditions. These include the perspectives of migrants, Irish Travellers and those experiencing socio-economic inequalities; the role of language and identity; the effects of globalisation on identity; the concept of identity and otherness explored through philosophic, religious, sociological and dramatic lenses.

This book will appeal to a wide audience including policymakers, educators, activists and anyone with an interest in social and cultural developments in contemporary Ireland, especially those committed to social justice.

Pádraig Ó Duibhir and Andrew O’Shea are lecturers in Education at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, a college of DCU. Rory Mc Daid, who was formerly a lecturer in St Patrick’s College, is currently teaching in London.

 

CONTENTS
Amel Yacef	ETHNICITY ↔ CLASS AND SOCIAL (IN)JUSTICE
Cathleen O’Neill	THE IRISH COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR: VITAL WORK UNDER CRITICAL ATTACK
Rosaleen McDonagh	TRAVELLERS AND TRAVELLER EDUCATION: ALL CHANGED?
Livingstone Thompson	RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND: EXPANDING THE DEBATE
Jim Cummins	DIVERSE FUTURES: IMMIGRATION, EDUCATION, AND IDENTITY IN CHANGING TIMES
Abel Ugba	WHEN ‘HOME’ IS NOWHERE: RE-ASSESSING AFRICAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE IN 21ST-CENTURY IRELAND
Mary Hickman	RE-IMAGINING IRELAND: IRELAND AND THE IRISH DIASPORA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Máirín Nic Eoin	CULTÚR NA GAEILGE NÓ POBAL NA GAEILGE? THE IRISH LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY FROM DOUGLAS HYDE TO DES BISHOP
Peadar Kirby	GLOBALISATION AND IDENTITY: REFLECTIONS FROM THE IRISH EXPERIENCE
Richard Kearney	WELCOMING THE STRANGER
Chrissie Poulter	WHAT’S THE STORY? THE TEACHER AS ARTIST... THE ARTIST AS TEACHER: THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED

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