From Beginning to End: An Irish Life History

Sharon Gmelch

doi:10.1075/jnlh.2.1.04fro

ISSN 1053-6981
E-ISSN: 2405-9374

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From Beginning to End: An Irish Life History
Author(s): Sharon Gmelch ¹
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Source: Journal of Narrative and Life History, Volume 2, Issue 1, Jan 1992, p. 29 - 38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.2.1.04fro

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AbstractThis 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)

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