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Southern Celts
Stories from People of Irish and Scottish Descent in Aotearoa
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Drawing on her own family experience and insights from her PhD inquiry, Celine Kearney travelled around Aotearoa to interview New Zealanders with Scottish and Irish backgrounds. Southern Celts uses autoethnography and narrative to explore how these New Zealanders live out their cultural connections to their Irish...
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Drawing on her own family experience & insights from her PhD inquiry, Celine Kearney travelled around Aotearoa to interview New Zealanders with Scottish & Irish backgrounds. βSouthern Celtsβ uses autoethnography & narrative to explore how these New Zealanders live out their cultural connections to their Irish & Scottish backgrounds.
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Drawing on her own family experience and insights from her PhD inquiry, Celine Kearney travelled around Aotearoa to interview New Zealanders with Scottish and Irish backgrounds. Southern Celts uses autoethnography and narrative to explore how these New Zealanders live out their cultural connections to their Irish and Scottish backgrounds. Interviews cross hemispheres and generations as well as geographic and cultural communities. They reflect the passage of time which brings constant change.
Southern Celts is a collection of interviews of New Zealanders who reflect on their connections to their Irish and Scottish cultural backgrounds. These narratives of individuals and families cover a range of related issues, including doing business, speaking and teaching Scottish and Irish Gaelic, playing music and singing, writing fiction and poetry, making documentaries, carving and sculpture, spirituality and religion, sport, and holding historical narratives of the Scots and Irish in public institutions.
Narrators also reflect on their understanding of how people with Scots and Irish backgrounds have related to indigenous MΔori over the generations in Aotearoa. As we look to teach more of our own New Zealand histories in schools, these personal narratives offer rich insights for the way ahead.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780473634117
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 March 2023
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Mary Egan Publishing
Illustration: Colour photographs included
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Celine Kearney is the granddaughter of three Irish-born grandparents, and one born to an immigrant Irish family in Central Otago. Born and brought up on the east coast of Otago, she has experience as a journalist and a researcher, and has taught English language to adults with migrant and refugee backgrounds, and international students for over thirty years. This is the second collection of her interviews to be published. An earlier collection of interviews of New Zealand women about their spirituality, βFaces of the Goddessβ, drew on her own experience and understanding of nature-based Celtic spirituality. She travelled around the country between 2010 and 2013 to interview New Zealanders with Irish and Scottish backgrounds for her narrative inquiry, βSouthern Celtsβ.
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