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anti-imperial activism
anti-Irish Catholic Sentiment
Anti-Irish Sentiment
Author_Mark Boyle
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catholic
Celtic FC
Celtic Football Club
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Flute Bands
Immigrant Advancement
Interviewee 66a
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic Adventure
Irish Catholic Community
Irish Catholic Heritage
Irish Catholic migration Scotland
Metropolitan Anxieties
Metropolitan Heartland
migrants
national identity conflict
Oral History
Oral History Archive
Oral History Method
oral history research
postcolonial theory
Practical Ensembles
progressive
Progressive Regressive Method
regressive
Sartre's Theory
sartres
Sartre’s Theory
Scotland's Shame
Scotland’s Shame
scottish
Scottish National Party
Scottish Nationalist Party
Scottish Society
sectarianism Scotland
society
St Patrick's Day
St Patrick’s Day
theory
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754633792
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In a lecture entitled ’Scotland’s shame’, delivered at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1999, Scotland’s leading musical composer James MacMillan sought in an explosive way to expose the continuing pervasiveness of anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sectarianism and bigotry in contemporary Scotland. A decade of heated public debate has followed. Drawing upon post-colonial critiques of the provincial nature of metropolitan theory, this book approaches the Scotland's shame debate as, in many ways, itself a classic metrocentric cultural struggle over the true and essential telos of a once colonised population. It argues that the most interesting question the debate has provoked, a question which thus far has failed to generate a worthy answer, is: is the Irish Catholic encounter with Scotland intelligible and if so, what is the nature of this intelligibility? The purpose of this book is to harness the complex and rich theory of colonialism which French philosopher, political activist and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre developed and struggled over, to venture a qualified and partial interpretation of the Irish Catholic experience of Scotland. Nevertheless, in so doing, the book takes seriously the charge of metrocentricism as it bears on the search for the meaning of the Irish Catholic adventure in Scotland and refuses to permit any simplistic interpretation of this adventure. Presenting findings from a new oral history archive consisting of 67 interviews with members of the Irish Catholic community in Scotland, attention is given to the themes of national identity, estrangement and belonging; diasporic imaginings of Ireland; anti-imperial activism, agitation and advocacy; culture, faith and family; and poverty, work education and equality.
Mark Boyle is Chair and Head of the Department of Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
