Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland

Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland

Author: Máiréad Nic Craith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-05-02

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1403948119

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Civilization and culture have traditionally been regarded as mutually exclusive concepts. In this comparative case-study of Northern Ireland, Máiréad Nic Craith explores the commitment of unionists to a civic, 'culture-blind' British state; contrasting this with nationalist demands for official recognition of Irish culture. The 'cultural turn' in Northern Irish politics and the development of a bicultural infrastructure is examined here in the context of differing interpretations of equality and increasing demands for intercultural communication within, as well as between, communities.


The Irish Language in Northern Ireland

The Irish Language in Northern Ireland

Author: Camille C. O'Reilly

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1349274232

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A topical and authoritative investigation of the Irish language and identity in Northern Ireland. The phrase 'our own language' has come to symbolize the importance of the Irish language to Irish identity for many Nationalists in Northern Ireland. However, different interests compete to have their version of the meaning and importance of the Irish language accepted. This book investigates the role of the Irish language movement in the social construction of competing versions of Irish political and cultural identity in Northern Ireland, arguing that for some Nationalists, the Irish language has become an alternative point of political access and expression.


Plural Identities--singular Narratives

Plural Identities--singular Narratives

Author: Máiréad Nic Craith

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781571813145

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Northern Ireland is frequently characterised in terms of a two traditions paradigm, representing the conflict as being between two discrete cultures. Demonstrating the reductionist nature of this argument, this book highlights the complexity of reality.


Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland

Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland

Author: Ms Claire Mitchell

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1409476928

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Has conflict in Northern Ireland kept political dimensions of religion alive, and has religion played a role in fuelling conflict? Conflict in Northern Ireland is not and never will be a holy war. Yet religion is more socially and politically significant than many commentators presume. In fact, religion has remained a central feature of social identity and politics throughout conflict as well as recent change. There has been an acceleration of interest in the relationship between religion, identity and politics in modern societies. Building on this debate, Claire Mitchell presents a challenging analysis of religion in contemporary Northern Ireland, arguing that religion is not merely a marker of ethnicity and that it continues to provide many of the meanings of identity, community and politics. In light of the multifaceted nature of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Mitchell explains that, for Catholics, religion is primarily important in its social and institutional forms, whereas for many Protestants its theological and ideological dimensions are more pressing. Even those who no longer go to church tend to reproduce religious stereotypes of 'them and us'. Drawing on a range of unique interview material, this book traces how individuals and groups in Northern Ireland have absorbed religious types of cultural knowledge, belonging and morality, and how they reproduce these as they go about their daily lives. Despite recent religious and political changes, the author concludes that perceptions of religious difference help keep communities in Northern Ireland socially separate and often in conflict with one another.


Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Author: Olaf Zenker

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0857459147

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Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.


Politics of Identity in Post-Conflict States

Politics of Identity in Post-Conflict States

Author: Éamonn Ó Ciardha

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1317483553

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Ireland and the Balkans have come to represent divided and (re)united communities. They both provide effective microcosms of national, ethnic, political, military, religious, ideological and cultural conflicts in their respective regions and, as a result, they demonstrate real and imaginary divisions. This book will specifically focus on the history, politics and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland, while making comparative reference to some of Europe’s other disputed and divided regions. Using case-studies such as Kosovo and Serbia; Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Russia and Belarus; Greece and Macedonia, it examines ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘border’ discourse, the topography of war and violence, post-war settlement and reconciliation, and the location and negotiation of national, ethnic, religious, political and cultural identities. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, history, politics, Irish studies, Slavonic studies, area studies and literary studies.


Culture and Politics

Culture and Politics

Author: Rik Pinxten

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1800733933

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With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, which is implicit in racial theories and re-emerges in the ideological use of cultural identity in new rightist movements, and presents case studies from different parts of the world where researchers were confronted with racism and worked out ways of coping with it.


Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

Author: Lee A. Smithey

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0195395875

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Lee Smithey examines how symbolic cultural expressions in Northern Ireland, such as parades, bonfires, murals, and commemorations, provide opportunities for Protestant unionists and loyalists to reconstruct their collective identities and participate in conflict transformation.


32 Counties

32 Counties

Author: KIERAN. ALLEN

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780745344188

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Partitioning Ireland was an experiment that has lasted a century. Now it is time for it to come to an end.


Lullabies and Battle Cries

Lullabies and Battle Cries

Author: Jaime Rollins

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-08-17

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1785339222

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Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future. Lullabies and Battle Cries explores the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in republican parading bands, with a focus on how this music continues to be utilized in a post-conflict climate. As author Jaime Rollins shows, rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities within continually shifting dynamics of republican culture.