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Acknowledgements

Timing and spacing Celtic geographies

PART I Othering and identity politics

Imagined geographies of the `Celtic fringe' and the cultural construction of the `Other' in medieval Wales and Ireland

`Their families had gone back in time hundreds of years at the same place': attitudes to land and landscape in the Scottish Highlands after 1914

Identity, hybridity and the institutionalisation of territory: on the geohistory of Celtic devolution

Welsh civil identity in the twenty-first century

PART II Sites of meaning

Sites of authenticity: Scotland's new parliament and official representations of the nation

Our common inheritance? Narratives of self and other in the Museum of Scotland

Tourism images and the construction of Celticity in Ireland and Brittany

The Scottish diaspora: Tartan Day and the appropriation of Scottish identities in the United States

Whose Celtic Cornwall? The ethnic Cornish meet Celtic spirituality

PART III Youth culture and Celtic revival

Edifying the rebellious Gael: uses of memories of Ireland's troubled past among the West of Scotland's Irish Catholic diaspora

From blas to bothy culture: the musical re-making of Celtic culture in a Hebridean festival

Celtic nirvanas: constructions of Celtic in contemporary British youth culture

PART IV Epilogue

A geography of Celtic appropriations

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