Week 7 Question

My topic is leprechauns.  At home, leprechauns are used as mascots and in advertising usually as comical caricatures.  I've always wondered if the way leprechauns are represented in the US was seen as disrespectful or offensive by the people of Ireland and thus was surprised when I got here and realized leprechauns are treated very similarly in Ireland.  I don't have a TV so I'm not sure if commercials use leprechauns in the same way, but I see them all over Dublin in many forms.  Its been fairly easy finding leprechauns to take observe and document.  Last week, I visited the Leprechaun Museum in Dublin, where I learned a lot about the myth of the leprechaun and what it means to the Irish people.  Morgan-Trimmer compares the process of creating a visual ethnography to exploratory research, and that very well sums up why I chose this topic.  I was surprised at how leprechauns are represented in Ireland, and this project gives me an opportunity to document my observations.