Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities -- Chapter 1 'If It Wasn't for the Tourists We Wouldn't Have an Audience': The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo -- Chapter 2 Defining the Local: The Development of an 'Environment Culture' in a Clare Village -- Chapter 3 Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnections in Festival Settings -- Part 2 Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices -- Chapter 4 'The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant': The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye -- Chapter 5 Constructing an Exotic 'Stroll' through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage Centre -- Chapter 6 'Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande': Tourism, Dance and Globalisation -- Part 3 The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities -- Chapter 7 Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses -- Chapter 8 The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry Gaeltacht -- Part 4 Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations -- Chapter 9 Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the Word -- Chapter 10 Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism -- Chapter 11 Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural World -- Part 5 Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues -- Chapter Twelve Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and the Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment -- Chapter 13 'Not Only Beef, But Beauty. . .': Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925-30 -- Index.