Here’s to the Irish: sláinte!

Farming, family and fertility were prevalent themes in the cultural anthropology of Ireland in the 1980s. Over the past two decades, however, cultural anthropologists have pursued a wider range of research topics including violence, politics, heritage and language, policy and transnational issues.

I constructed the following list of references using AnthropologyPlus for the journal articles and a perusal of books in my personal library.

As with previous lists of references posted on this blog, the following is admittedly a partial collection. I offer it to you with the hope that it will inspire you to track down some of these sources, read them, and further explore the literature on Ireland and the Irish. The journal articles are not open access, so my apologies once again to readers without access to a library.

Image: Marilyn Monroe Reading James Joyce. Flickr creative commons licensed content by user I, Puzzled.

Read, enjoy, and join me in raising a glass to the Irish!

Andriolo, Karin. 2006. “The Twice-Killed : Imagining Protest Suicide.” American Anthropologist 108(1):100-113.

Bairner, Alan. 2003. “Political Unionism and Sporting Nationalism: An Examination of the Relationship between Sport and National Identity within the Ulster Unionist Tradition.” Identities 10(4):517-535.

Ballard, Linda-May. 2008. “Curating Intangible Cultural Heritage.” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 17(1):74-95.

Best, Alyssa. 2005. Abortion Rights Along the Irish-English Border and the Liminality of Women’s Experiences. Dialectical Anthropology 29(3-4):423-437.

Brown, Kris, and Roger MacGinty. 2003. “Public Attitudes Toward Partisan and Neutral Symbols in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland.” Identities 10(1):83-108.

Bryan, Dominic. 2000. Orange Parades: The Politics of Ritual, Tradition, and Control. London: Pluto Press.

Cadhla, Stiofán Ó. 2001. “Fast Knocks and Nags: The Stolen Car in the Urban Vernacular Culture of Cork.” Ethnologia Europaea 31(2):77-94.

Carter, Thomas F. 2003. “Violent Pastime(s): On the Commendation and Condemnation of Violence in Belfast.” City & Society 15(2):255-281.

Carter, Thomas. 2003. “In the Spirit of the Game?: Cricket & Changing Notions of being British in Northern Ireland.” Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe 3(1):14-26.

Cashman, Ray. 2006. “Critical Nostalgia and Material Culture in Northern Ireland.” Journal of American Folk-Lore 119(472):137-160.

Cohen, Marilyn, 2002. “It Wasn’t a Woman’s World”: Memory Construction and the Culture of Control in a North of Ireland Parish. Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives: 53-64.

Crowley, Tony. 2006. “The Political Production of a Language: The Case of Ulster-Scots. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16(1):23-35.

Costa, Kelly Ann. 2009. Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Curtis, Jennifer. 2008. “‘Community’ and the Re-Making of 1970s Belfast. Ethnos 73(3):399-426.

Donnan, Hastings and Graham McFarlane, eds. 1997. Culture and Policy in Northern Ireland: Anthropology in the Public Arena. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast.

Donnan, Hastings, and Kirk Simpson. 2007. “Silence and Violence among Northern Ireland Border Protestants.” Ethnos 72(1):5-28.

Eyetsemitan, Frank E. 2002. “Perceived Elderly Traits and Young People’s Helping Tendencies in the U.S., Ireland, Nigeria & Brazil.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 17(1):57-69.

Finlay, Andrew. 2008. “The Persistence of the ‘Old’ Idea of Culture and the Peace Process in Ireland.” Critique of Anthropology 28(3):279-296.

Fong, Vanessa L. 2008. “The Other Side of the Healthy Immigrant Paradox: Chinese Sojourners in Ireland and Britain Who Return to China due to Personal and Familial Health Crises.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 32(4):626-641.

Helleiner, Jane. 2003. “The Politics of Traveller ‘Child Begging’ in Ireland.” Critique of Anthropology 23(1):17-33.

Hill, Andrew, and Andrew A. White. 2008. “The Flying of Israeli Flags in Northern Ireland.” Identities 15(1):31-50.

Hyde, Abbey, Jonathan Drennan, Etaoine Howlett, and Dympna Brady. 2008. “Heterosexual Experiences of Secondary School Pupils in Ireland: Sexual Coercion in Context.” Culture, Health and Sexuality 10(5):479-493.

Kaul, Adam R. 2007. “The Limits of Commodification in Traditional Irish Music Sessions.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13(3):703-719.

Kierans, Ciara M. 2005. “Narrating Kidney Disease: The Significance of Sensation and Time in the Emplotment of Patient Experience.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 29(3):341-359.

Kierans, Clara M., and N. U. I. Maynooth. 2001. “Sensory and Narrative Identity: The Narration of Illness Process among Chronic Renal Sufferers in Ireland.” Anthropology and Medicine 8(2-3):237-253.

Lele, Veerendra P. 2008. “‘Demographic Modernity’ in Ireland: A Cultural Analysis of Citizenship, Migration, and Fertility” (PDF file). Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe 8(1):5-17.

LeMaster, Barbara. 2006. “Language Contraction, Revitalization, and Irish Women.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16(2):211-228.

Maguire, Mark, and A. Jamie Saris. 2007. “Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish Lives.” Anthropology Today 23(2):9-12.

McCarthy, Elise. 2007. “Land of Saints and Tigers: The Transformation of Responsibility in Ireland?.” Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe 7(1):3-7.

O Dochartaigh, Niall. 2009. “Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience.” Identities 16(1):102-127.

Ó Laoire, Muiris. 2005. “Three Languages in the Schools in Ireland.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 171:95-113.

Rosland, Sissel. 2009. “Victimhood, Identity, and Agency in the Early Phase of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.” Identities 16(3):294-320.

Salazar, Carles. 2008. “Knowledge and Discipline – Knowledge as Discipline: Aspects of the Oral History of Irish Sexuality.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14(1):135-151.

Salazar, Carles. 2003. “Demographic Growth and the “Cultural Factor” in Ireland: Rethinking the Relationship between Structure and Event.” History and Anthropology 14(3):271-281.

Saris, A. Jamie. 2008. “An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 32(2):259-277.

Saris, A. Jamie, and Brendan Bartley. 2002. “Arts of Memory: Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin “Underclass” Housing Estate.” Anthropology Today 18(4):14-19.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2001 [1979]. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. Berkeley: University of California Press. Twentieth Anniversary Edition.

Shandy, Dianna J. 2008. “Irish Babies, African Mothers: Rites of Passage and Rights in Citizenship in Post-Millennial Ireland.” Anthropological Quarterly 81(4):803-831.

Skinner, Jonathan. 2008. “The ‘PB’ and the Aestheticization of Violence in Northern Ireland.” Ethnography 9(3):403-414.

Sluke, Jeffrey A., ed. 2000. Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Tonkin, E. 2009. “Is Charity a Gift?: Northern Irish Supporters of Christian Missions Overseas.” Social Anthropology 17(2):171-183.

Tuck, Jason. 2003. “Making Sense of Emerald Commotion: Rugby Union, National Identity and Ireland.” Identities 10(4):495-515.

Warren, Kay. 2007. “Writing Gendered Memories of Repression in Northern Ireland: Begoña Aretxaga at the Doors of the Prison.” Anthropological Theory 7(1):9-35.

Were, Graeme. 2007. “Fashioning Belief: The Case of the Baha’i Faith in Northern New Ireland.” Anthropological Forum 17(3):239-253.

Whitaker, Robin. 2008. “Gender and the Politics of Justice in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Considering Róisín McAliskey. Identities 15(1):1-30.

Whitaker, Robin. 2008. “Writing as a Citizen?: Some Thoughts on the Uses of Dilemmas.” Critique of Anthropology 28(3):321-338.

Wilson, John, and Karyn Stapleton. 2007. “The Discourse of Resistance: Social Change and Policing in Northern Ireland.” Language in Society 36(3):393-425.

Wilson, Tamar Diana. 2006. “‘I Thought Horses was the Best Thing Ever’: Irish Jarveys in Dublin.” Critique of Anthropology 26(2):139-156.

Wilson, Thomas M. and Hastings Donnan. 2006. The Anthropology of Ireland. New York: Berg Publishers.

Wulff, Helena. 2002. Yo-Yo Fieldwork: Mobility and Time in a Multi-Local Study of Dance in Ireland. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. 11:117-136.

_____. 2007. “Longing for the Land: Emotions, Memory, and Nature in Irish Travel Advertisements.” Identities 14(4):527-544.