Perspective on Church Tourism in Ireland Dr. Kevin Griffin Head of Tourism Department Dublin Institute of Technology.

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Perspective on Church Tourism in Ireland Dr. Kevin Griffin Head of Tourism Department Dublin Institute of Technology

Context  Academia ATLAS Religious Tourism Special Interest Group  Personal Research Interests Irish Traveller Community  Genealogy Some reflections on Ireland

Academia

ATLAS Religious Tourism Special Interest Group

Pilgrimage Local Regional / National International Issue 1: Focus of Pilgrimage Research Glocalisation? Contradiction in a Globalising World

Classifying Visitors

Issue 3: Audience / Research Pop. Core / Normal / Standard  In Ireland we focus on : Roman Catholic Regular Mass attendees Settled / comfortable / middle-old age etc. ‘Native Irish’

My Personal Research The Irish Travelling Community

Insights into faith  ‘Travellers are very religious. I love a lot of blessed pictures and statues and plenty of holy water in the place. If I miss Mass it takes a lot out of me. Travellers believe a lot in priests and cures. We are very superstitious - marriages and black cats. We believe in ghosts - it gives us an idea that there's life after death... ’ We wouldn't miss the patterns of the graves. -- Kathleen McDonagh (Traveller Voices, Pavee Point Travellers Centre )

Insights into faith (from interviews and focus groups)  When I was young we travelled and slept in tents on the side of the road – I was born in the County Home in... and baptised in... My mother made sure we were settled in a stable campsite for our communion and confirmation – but she had no care for reading or writing – you could get on without them. ... He wasn’t a great goer of mass, but he always said his prayers every night.

Insights into faith (from interviews and focus groups)  I can’t do the rosary right, but I’m trying to learn (grandmother)  ‘You have your own belief’  ‘Our Lady is always here’  I believe in Our Lady and the Sacred Heart and all the Angels and Saints  I’ve been to Meduguorgie three times this year already (young male c.20yrs)  The Lady has been good to us (male c.40yrs)

Knock  No. 1 visited site in Ireland  c.1million visitors (pilgrims?) per year  Marian Shrine  Formally recognised by the Catholic Church  Visited by Pope John Paul II (1979)

Many questions for Knock  Many sceptics question the ‘validity’ of experience at such a site.  Does this site cater for ‘all’ visitors / pilgrims  Is this level of ‘organisation’ needed at sites  How much of the illustrated fabric fits into the ‘sacred’ end of the continuum and how much into the ‘secular’ end ?  As an academic I can pick holes in this site because it is - trendy great fun gratifying to my intellectual ego.  BUTTTTTTT:

Traveller’s Comments on Knock  ‘In Knock you really feel closer to Our Lady – where she appeared’  ‘The statue procession is wonderful’  ‘This is a peaceful and holy place’  ‘There are no words to describe my experience of Knock’  ‘Everybody should come here’

Other (domestic) sites visited by Travellers

St Brigid’s Well Kildare

St Brigid’s Stream & Well - Faughart, two miles north-west of Dundalk Eye Stone Knee StoneHead Stone Hip / Leg Stone ‘We Visit for Intentions and cures’

St Bridget’s Well Liscannor, Co. Clare

Croagh Patrick (The Reek)

Killeigh (The Seven Blessed Wells

‘we leave something from sick people’

Genealogy in Ireland

Genealogical Tourism  Recorded Genealogy Tourism peaked in the year ,000 ‘Genealogical Visitors’ came to the island (Bord Failte, 2001).  However, have ceased recording Genealogy Visitors numbers from  Recent years focus on investment in ‘special interest’ and ‘niche markets’  : ‘a number of issues of management... impact on the... capacity of... stakeholders to maximise genealogy tourism’ (Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism, 2005 pp 91).

 Australian and New Zealand in Electronic Direct Marketing (EDM) campaigns and the ‘Go Green – Discover your Irish side’ campaign (Tourism Ireland c, 2008).  Now tourism marketing focus on areas ‘where Ireland may have a particular competitive advantage. Possible segments include.....The wider Irish Diaspora (including Scots-Irish) (Tourism Renewal Group, 2009 pp 44)

Who is the Genealogical tourist / visitor?