Siobhan Doyle Importance of Sporting Imagery in Representing National Identity
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SIOBHÁN DOYLE
The Importance of Sporting Imagery in Representing
National Identity
What is National Identity?
Identifiable to nation states and ethnic populations
Performed
Shared
Grounded in images & stories
Constantly defined and redefined
Types of Visual Representations
Illustrations
Paintings
Cinema
Photography
Television
Internet
The Irish Frankenstein
By John Tenniel
Punch, May 20th 1882
Irish Landscape
A Connemara Village (1934)
Oil on canvas by Paul Henry
Páidí Ó Sé (1985)
John HindePostcards
-Produced between 1957 and 1972
-Promoted Irish tourism before the development of digital imaging
-Lurid style often with posed, explicitly nostalgic subject matters
‘Collecting Turf from the Bog, Connemara’John Hinde Postcard Collection (1962)
John Hinde Postcard Reinvention by The Stone Twins (2013)
Fan Selfie at College World Series (2013)
Michael Collins addressing players before throwing in the ball at Croke Park (1922)
Wexford Hurler Lee Chin (Sportsfile, 2014)
Roy Keane & Mick McCarthySaipan (2002)
Ronan O’ Gara and Chris Ashton (2011)
Katie Taylor (2012)
Clare GAA Fan (Sportsfile, 2013)
Sonia O’ Sullivan (2000)