Irish experiences since joining the EEC/EU (1973) have been closely linked to globalisations and changing core-periphery relationships. Transitions in economic patterns in time-space contexts became especially evident in the 1990s, but what is interesting is that Ireland did not follow classic development paths associated with Western economies. With EU membership, Foreign Direct Investment must be seen in context and scale. For insights into this, the strategic areas of manufacturing, agriculture and tourism are examined. Like tourism with incoming and outgoing visitors, globalisation is a two-way process with imports, exports, and inwards and outwards investment. Analysis of Ireland and globalisation would be incomplete without reference to Northern Ireland, which is too often the case.
This book series addresses relevant topics in the wide field of geography, which connects the physical, human and technological sciences to enhance teaching, research, and decision making. Geography provides answers to how aspects of these sciences are interconnected and are forming spatial patterns and processes that impact on global, regional and local issues and thus affecting present and future generations. Moreover, Geography by dealing with places, people and cultures, explores international issues ranging from physical, urban and rural environments and their evolution, to climate, pollution, development and political-economy.Key Challenges in Geography is an initiative of the European Association of Geographers (EUROGEO), an organization dealing with examining geographical issues from a European perspective, representing European Geographers working in different professional activities and at all levels of education. EUROGEO's goal and the core part of its statutory activities is to make European Geography a worldwide reference and standard. The book series serves as a platform for members of EUROGEO as well as affiliated national Geographical Associations in Europe but is equally open to contributions from non-members.The book series has a global scope and includes contributions from a wide range of theoretical and applied geographical disciplines.
The role of heritage in Irish tourism has undergone recent re-evaluation by the industry's national development authority, Fáilte Ireland, as part of its strategy for cultural tourism.Today it is no longer enough to regard heritage as simply a niche product, but rather something which should become mainstream and be interpreted 'in ways that are usable for the visitor'. However, the delicate balance required by this approach is also long recognised.This chapter questions the implications of a more complex heritage strategy in relation to one of Ireland's most contested heritage sites, the Battle of the Boyne site at Oldbridge in Co.Meath, which was officially opened to visitors a year after the new strategy was published in 2007. The Battle of the Boyne site was purchased by the Irish state in 2000 and opened to visitors in Spring 2008, catering for different heritages in the context of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Oldbridge, at the epicentre of the Battle, symbolises a defining event in the colonial process and creation of two ethno-religious proto-nationalisms in Ireland; its drums still echo in Northern Ireland's streets each summer. This once-bloody place is central to identity foundation concepts of Unionist citizens in Northern Ireland, while for a majority of people on the island of Ireland, this inherited 'traumascape' also holds subliminal echoes of 'negative heritage' and a 'troubled history'.Oldbridge's location in the culturally-rich Boyne Valley landscape implicitly affords it much potential as a tourism, reconciliation and educational space. Site preservation can be economically sustained by being part of other visitor-tourist 'commodified' locations. In this context, questions must embrace sustainability of heritage space, values and feelings that may 2 be connected with Oldbridge, and future site usage. This chapter reports on perspectives of multiple voices and considers shifting meanings of the site, before it was officially opened to the public, during the development process and following the opening of the visitor centre. It reflects on the impacts of commodification, considering the implications of current official tourism strategy. In the final part of the paper, we argue that for contested spaces, commodification may be a way of 'neutralising' the past, but this may be seen as a political and social necessity. Heritage Tourism in IrelandTourism in Ireland has long been recognised as having significant economic importance, accounting for 4% of GNP and providing approximately 200,000 jobs. 1 In 2014, total tourism revenue amounted to €6.56 billion. 2 Unprecedented tourism growth in the 1990s saw Ireland outperforming the rest of Europe, but by 2001 it had become less competitive; a series of strategies and reports in the early 2000s sought to enhance the Irish tourism product, one important aspect of which is heritage. In 2007, Fáilte Ireland's Tourism Product Development Strategy observed that 'Ireland's cultural and historical heritage is one of the strong magnets for tourists comin...
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