1. From Beginning to End: An Irish Life History
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Sharon Gmelch
- Subjects
Interview ,Irish ,Ethnography ,language ,Media studies ,Literary criticism ,Sociology ,Social science ,Life history ,language.human_language - Abstract
This article discusses the two ends of the life-history process: the reasons for its undertaking and the research assumptions these engender, and the impact of the published account on readers. In doing so, I draw on my own experience in the research and writing of Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling woman (Gmelch, 1986/1991) and upon the responses of Traveller and non-Traveller readers to this life history. (Ethnographic research; life-history interviewing, editing, and narra-tive construction; literary criticism)
- Published
- 1992
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