%0 Journal Article %A Gmelch, Sharon %T From Beginning to End: An Irish Life History %D 1992 %J Journal of Narrative and Life History %V 2 %N 1 %P 29-38 %@ 1053-6981 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.2.1.05wri %I John Benjamins %X 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) %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jnlh.2.1.05wri