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The article discusses the contemporary anthropology of Ireland with special attention to the Irish culture, traditions, and society. Other topics mentioned in this article include the ethnology of Ireland, the cultural history of Ireland, and the overall history of Ireland with special focus on anthropological research.

Here I offer a reengagement with Conrad Arensberg and Solon Kimball's (Arensberg 1968[1937]; Arensberg and Kimball 1940) canonical ethnographies of rural western Ireland along with a new consideration of data the ethnographers never analyzed in their publications. I argue that epistemological debates and commitments in U.S. anthropology fueled Arensberg and Kimball's structural-functionalist orientation because of the ways this theory became emblematic of a scientific, value-free perspective to which these scholars were committed in ways that precluded analysis of state governmentality and violence. The new analysis of Arensberg and Kimball's unpublished ethnographic materials shows how local social life was shaped by the persistence of political violence in the "postconflict" democratic Irish Free State well after the war was officially over. I focus particularly on the nascent district court system to show how the judiciary and its participants were key agents in establishing and contesting the legitimacy of the postwar political system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the anthropology of Ireland with special attention to anthropological researchers Keith Egan as well as Fiona Murphy. Other topics mentioned in this article include anthropological research in the 20th and 21st century, the ethnography of Ireland, as well as the history of Ireland.

The author discusses the anthropology of Ireland in the 20th and 21st century with special attention to researchers Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy. Other topics mentioned in this article include anthropology in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, anthropological research, and researchers Conrad Arensberg and Solon Kimball.