Overview
- Examines how tensions between the local and the global have recast Irish identity in the 21st Century
- Contextualises the shift of Irish popular culture's resurgence in international popularity
- Appeals to students and scholars of Irish studies, cultural studies, as well as film and media studies
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This book uses popular culture to highlight the intersections and interplay between ideologies, technological advancement and mobilities as they shape contemporary Irish identities. Marshalling case studies drawn from a wide spectrum of popular culture, including the mediated construction of prominent sporting figures, Troubles-set sitcom Derry Girls, and poignant drama feature Philomena, Anthony P. McIntyre offers a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Irishness, tracing its entanglement with notions of mobility, regionality and identity. The book will appeal to students and scholars of Irish studies, cultural studies, as well as film and media studies.
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“In a wide-ranging survey of Irish popular cultural artefacts, McIntyre lucidly explores issues of Irishness in the twenty-first century. Structuring his study around well-known figures, from Conor McGregor to the Irish mammy, the author considers issues of diaspora, space, mobility, gender, and ethnicity through a rigorous application of related critical theory. At the same time, he writes with a light touch that will make this volume accessible to peers and students alike.” —Ruth Barton, Associate Professor in Film Studies and Head of School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
“This is a beautifully written, wide-ranging, carefully historicised and theorised book that will be of great significance to anyone interested in contemporary Irish culture.”
—Sinéad Moynihan, Associate Professor in American and Atlantic Literatures, University of Exeter, UK
“McIntyre ventures into hitherto underexplored terrain… principally comedy, sport and migration, to examine how contemporary Irish diasporic celebrities and comedic texts variously encompass the intersections of, and tensions between, gender, national and regional identities as they circulate within the Anglophone popular cultural sphere. Theoretically rich, transdisciplinary in its approach and always analytically nuanced and stimulating, this book constitutes a significant advance in the study of contemporary Irish popular culture.”
—Marcus Free, Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
“This is a beautifully written, wide-ranging, carefully historicised and theorised book that will be of great significance to anyone interested in contemporary Irish culture.”
—Sinéad Moynihan, Associate Professor in American and Atlantic Literatures, University of Exeter, UK
“McIntyre ventures into hitherto underexplored terrain… principally comedy, sport and migration, to examine how contemporary Irish diasporic celebrities and comedic texts variously encompass the intersections of, and tensions between, gender, national and regional identities as they circulate within the Anglophone popular cultural sphere. Theoretically rich, transdisciplinary in its approach and always analytically nuanced and stimulating, this book constitutes a significant advance in the study of contemporary Irish popular culture.”
—Marcus Free, Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anthony P. McIntyre is a Teaching Fellow in Film and Media Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is Co-editor of The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (2017) and recent publications have appeared in Television & New Media, Feminist Media Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Irish Popular Culture
Book Subtitle: Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora
Authors: Anthony P. McIntyre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94255-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94254-0Published: 24 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94257-1Published: 25 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94255-7Published: 23 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: British Cinema and TV, Popular Culture , British Culture, History of Britain and Ireland