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The Media And Armed Conflict, Philip Hammond
“Croke Park Goes Plumb Crazy”: Pathé Newsreels And Gaelic Games, 1920-1939, Seán Crosson Dr., Dónal Mcanallen Dr.
“Croke Park Goes Plumb Crazy”: Pathé Newsreels And Gaelic Games, 1920-1939, Seán Crosson Dr., Dónal Mcanallen Dr.
Seán Crosson
(Co-written with Dónal McAnallen) 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 Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) enjoyed a boom in numbers of players and supporters, thus confirming hurling and Gaelic football as the definitively Irish national games and the association itself as the most popular mass movement for the expression of independent Irish identity. Yet paradoxically, given the popular association of Gaelic games with Irish independence, nearly all footage of these games from …
The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, And The American Indian Woman, Debra Merskin
The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, And The American Indian Woman, Debra Merskin
Debra Merskin
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Gaelic Games And “The Movies”, Seán Crosson Dr.
Gaelic Games And “The Movies”, Seán Crosson Dr.
Seán Crosson
From the earliest days of the cinema, sport was one of the most popular subjects of representation. Unsurprisingly, when film arrived in Ireland, Irish sport, including gaelic games, would soon feature. Gaelic games were exhibited in both actualities and newsreel, even if many of these, particularly between the wars, would emerge from foreign companies, often with a strong British bias. However, it is difficult to definitively identify a distinct genre of Irish sports film per se – outside of documentary - and indeed few Irish fiction films that feature sport at all, and still less that feature gaelic games. However, …
Demanding Respect: The Uses Of Reported Speech In Discursive Constructions Of Interracial Contact, Richard Buttny, Princess L. Williams
Demanding Respect: The Uses Of Reported Speech In Discursive Constructions Of Interracial Contact, Richard Buttny, Princess L. Williams
Richard Buttny
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