Where and what is Ireland? --What are the identities of the people of Ireland? --How has European Union membership shaped Irish people's lives and interests? --How global is local Ireland? This book argues that such questions can be answered only by understanding everyday aspects of Irish culture and identity.

Thomas M. Wilson is Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York. Hastings Donnan is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Queen's University of Belfast.

1 Anthropology Ireland: Identity,Voice and Invention Locating the Anthropology of Ireland 3 Controlling Bodies 4 Ireland's 'Other(ing)' Economies 5 Re-presenting 'Irishness' 6 Frontier Tales and the Politics of Emplacement 7 Transnational and Global Ireland 8 Ethnographic Experience and Engagement in the Anthropology of Ireland