Dancing At the Crossroads : : Memory and Mobility in Ireland / / Helena Wulff.

Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, "dancing at...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Dance and Performance Studies ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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