Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland

Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland

Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien (eds)

PETER LANG

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ISSN 1864-273X

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About the editors

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in Dublin Technological University – Tallaght Campus. He is editor of two series with Peter Lang: Studies in Franco-Irish Relations and Reimagining Ireland.

Eugene O’Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is also the editor for the Oxford University Press Online Bibliography project in literary theory. He has directed thirty-one PhD theses on the areas of Irish Studies and Literary and Critical Theory. His recent publications include Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose (2016); The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney (2016); Representations of Loss in Irish Literature, with Deirdre Flynn (2018); Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism: From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond, 2nd edition, with Eamon Maher (2018).

About the book

This collection of essays explores the concept of patrimoine, a French word used to denote cultural heritage, traditional customs and practices – the Gaelic equivalent is dúchas – and the extent to which it impacts on France and Ireland. Borrowing from disciplines as varied as sociology, cultural theory, literature, marketing, theology, history, musicology and business, the contributors to the volume unearth interesting manifestations of how patrimoine resonates across cultural divides and bestows uniqueness and specificity on countries and societies, sometimes in a subliminal manner.

Issues covered include debt as heritage, Guinness as a cultural icon of ‘Irishness’, faith-based tourism, the Huguenot heritage in Ireland, Irish musical inheritances since Independence, Skellig Michael and the commodification of Irish culture.

With a Foreword by His Excellency M. Stéphane Crouzat, French Ambassador to Ireland, this collection breaks new ground in assessing the close links between France and Ireland, links that will become all the more important in light of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

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Contents

List of Figures

Avant-propos/Preface

Acknowledgements

eamon maher and eugene o’brien

Introduction: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland

part iComing to Terms with Patrimoine

eugene o’brien

1 Metanoia and Reflexive Thinking: Towards a Deconstruction of Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage

eóin flannery

2 Debt as Inheritance

harry white

3 ‘We did not choose this patrimony’: Irish Musical Inheritances since Independence

part iiTourism and Culture

tony kiely

4 ‘Protestant Strangers and Others’: Re-imagining the Contribution of French Huguenots and their Descendants to Ireland’s Ancient ‘Patrimoine’←vii | viii→

catherine maignant

5 The Reification of Sceilg Mhichíl

déborah vandewoude

6 Faith-based Tourism in Ireland and France

part iiiLinking Products to Patrimoine

patricia medcalf

7 Irish Cultural Heritage through the Prism of Guinness’s Ads in the 1980s

brian murphy

8 A Traditional Irish Family Butcher Shop: ‘Harnessing the power of Patrimoine’

julien guillaumond

9 ‘Butter them up’: When Marketing Meets Heritage – The Case of Irish Butter in Germany

part ivLiterature and Patrimoine

maguy pernot-deschamps

10 ‘Enfants d’ici, parents d’ailleurs’

mary pierse

11 George Moore: A Case of Dúchas/Patrimoine in Flux?

grace neville

12 ‘I don’t think I could have made a decent living without the French’: An Analysis of Reviews of Irish Literature in Le Monde, 1950–2017←viii | ix→

Notes on Contributors

Index←ix | x→ ←x | xi→

Figures

Figure 7.1. No beer comes near (Matt Doyle)

Figure 7.2. No beer comes near (Ray Houghton)

Figure 8.1. Brian Murphy, Lucy Murphy and Michael Murphy on the final day of M. J. Murphy’s Butcher Shop

Figure 8.2. The Fourth Space Model

Figure 8.3. Key strands of the Fourth Space Model

Figure 9.1: Butter production in selected EU countries (1,000 t) in 2015

Figure 9.2. Detail of Kerrygold logo

Figure 9.3. Detail of Kerrygold website first page

Figure 9.4. Details of Kerrygold myths

Figure 9.5. The grass is greener on the other side – welcome to Ireland←xi | xii→ ←xii | xiii→

Avant-propos/Preface