Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "Identity"
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'Ah, Ireland, the caring nation': foreign aid and Irish state identity in the long 1970s
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-05)On a plane leaving Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia in late 1992, an Arab doctor offered John O'Shea, head of the relief agency Goal, a glimpse of how the Irish were viewed in that civil war-ravaged state. ‘Ah, Ireland’, he ... -
Beyond ourselves: Passion and the dark side of identification in an ethical organization
(2010-03-19)How are organizational discourses enacted by people at work? In this article, instead of treating subjects as somewhat distinct from such discourses, I argue that the two are inescapably intertwined. The concept of 'ek-stasis' ... -
'Croke Park goes Plumb Crazy' Gaelic Games in Pathé Newsreels, 1920–1939
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)From the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, and over the next two decades, arose great efforts in Ireland to augment political independence from Britain with enhanced cultural separation. During this period the ... -
Exploring European sporting identities: history, theory, methodology ,
(Peter Lang, 2010)This collaborative study (an introduction to the collection Sport, Representation, and Evolving Identities in Europe) is intended to contribute to the ongoing elucidation of the role of sport in the processes of identity ... -
Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)Ossian Online is a project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. The project will ... -
An teanga agus oidhreacht na namhrán i dToraigh
(Éigse Cholm Cille, 2016)A discussion of the role of performance, especially song in the maintenance of identity and culture in Tory Island with a focus on two song texts.