Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination

Smyth, Gerry

doi:10.1057/9781403913678_2

Cited by 7 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The relationship between space and Irish identity has commonly been discussed in relation to the countryside and to rural landscapes (Smyth, 2001). However, as Curtin et al 1993: 14) point out, 'the contests over space, power, history and image in the urban areas of Ireland are inextricably linked to the ways people adapt to the perturbations of their urban environments'.…”

Section: Space Memory and Monuments In Contemporary Belfastmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cultural politics of remembrance: sport, place and memory in Belfast and Berlin

Bairner

2008

International Journal of Cultural Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Space Memory and Monuments In Contemporary Belfastmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cultural politics of remembrance: sport, place and memory in Belfast and Berlin

Bairner

2008

International Journal of Cultural Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…. by relatively disenfranchised, dominated elements of the national population" 31 (see Turner Response in (Stolcke, 1995)). Calling for the exclusion of difference on nationalist grounds is a convenient way of "stressing the common ground the protesters share with the dominant elements of the national society -the bureaucracy and the political leadership -and thus gaining moral leverage over them to compel them to take more account of the protesters and their demands" (ibid).…”

Section: Being Irish In the 'New' Ireland?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Borneman, 1992) as cited in (Holmes, 2000: 3 , 1994: 13). See for example, (Graham 1999: Johnson 1997: Smyth 2001 to immigration issues promising reform in this area through the Immigration and Residency Act (Ryan, 2005: 190). Unlike continental European states where citizenship is typically acquired through descent or naturalization, the Irish Republic, in its 1937 Constitution, based its nationality law on jus soli principles (Ryan, 2005: 176).…”

Section: Postscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem”: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood

Tormey

2007

International Migration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper examines Ireland's 2004 Constitutional Amendment which removes birthright citizenship from any future Irish-born children of immigrant parents. I argue that for particular historical reasons, the ability of the state to convince its citizens of the necessity for this Amendment was remarkable and I suggest that it was able to do so by constructing citizenship as a moral regime and foreign-nationals and their foetuses as 'suspect patriots.' I describe how the notion of immorality is laminated upon black bodies -specifically black pregnant women -and how the presence of black migrant workers, refugees and asylees consequently comes to be experienced in Irish national space as transgressive, their political subjecthood constrained by the supposedly legible abjectivity of their bodies. The issue of race remains unenunciated, and yet, as the Minister for Justice stated during the referendum debate, 'anyone with eyes can see the problem.' The Irish government's privileging of moral rather than cultural incommensurability is strikingly similar to culturalist rhetorics of exclusion that are often invoked when race is at issue in European public debate on immigration. Configured upon, and therefore experienced as a type of body, immorality becomes an alibi for race and is naturalized as a form of exclusion and as a potential site of state intervention in the form of xenophobic legislation and policymaking. Reading this decision as merely racist however, fails to give voice to the experiences of Irish Citizens who voted for this Amendment. Their struggle to build a "New Ireland" and to accept a multiculturalist framework in the face of neo-liberal restructuring policies and a European-wide retreat from the welfare state must be considered as being in dialectical tension with the ideological smearing of immigrants if we are to fully grasp the complex interaction between relations of power and the privileging of difference.

show abstract

“…This absence of these experiences is compounded by Kincaid's non-engagement with recent research into questions of urbanism and identity in Ireland. By now there is quite a well developed literature that has considered the social and cultural spaces of gardens, department stores, hospitals, cinemas and dancehalls as well as the social histories of sport, technology, dance, fashion and advertising (Attis, 2000;Bielenberg, 2002;Cronin, 2003;Maguire, 1998;O'Kane, 2000;Ryan, 1998 ;Carroll-Burke, 2002;Smyth, 2001;Smith, 2004;O'Connor, 2005;Whyte and Bowler, 1997).…”

Section: Modernity and Elsewherementioning

confidence: 99%

Modernity and elsewhere: Re‐imagining Dublin's Built environment

Linehan

2006

Irish Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination

Cited by 7 publications

References 0 publications

The cultural politics of remembrance: sport, place and memory in Belfast and Berlin

The cultural politics of remembrance: sport, place and memory in Belfast and Berlin

“Everyone with Eyes Can See the Problem”: Moral Citizens and the Space of Irish Nationhood

Modernity and elsewhere: Re‐imagining Dublin's Built environment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About