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helped publicise Belong To’s annual Stand Up! Awareness Week Against Homophobic Bullying, launched in 2010. The campaign ran in 1,700 Irish secondary schools and youth organisations in March 2012 (Belong To, 2012 ). However, his statements have often endorsed the supposedly positive features of Irish culture and society without necessarily acknowledging the more problematic and restrictive features of Irish life, particularly where religion, the state and education are concerned. He helped launch the 2012 campaign with the remark that, ‘as a people we’re extremely
. (2010) When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out: The World’s Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again , London: Palgrave Macmillan. Lynch, K. (1960) The Image of the City, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Meade, R. (2011) ‘Brand Ireland: culture in the crisis’, Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory, 2(3): 14–20. McCarthy, C. (2003) ‘Corruption in public office in Ireland: policy design as a countermeasure’, Economic and Social Research Institute ( ESRI) Quarterly Economic Commentary, Autumn: 1
, representation, resistance, nationalism, gender, migrancy and diaspora – are central in the study of Ireland, and have suggested that Irish culture is considered squarely within the history of colonialism and resistance to it, and with recourse to postcolonial critical methods. The inclusion of Irish materials in Castle’s anthology is one good example of this. Elleke Boehmer has pointed out how late-nineteenth-century Irish nationalists often understood their opposition to the British Empire as coterminous with anti-colonial resistance elsewhere, as in South Africa for example
imagination with disastrously inaccurate forecasting. 84 Allen, Ireland’s Economic Crash, pp. 121–5. 85 ‘ESRI: We’ve turned a corner and end of austerity in sight’, Irish Independent, 18 December 2013. Available at www.independent.ie/irish-news/esri-weveturned-a-corner-and-end-of-austerity-in-sight-29847498.html. Consulted on 22 January 2014. 86 Kieran Allen, ‘The Irish political elite’, Paper presented at the ‘Are the Irish Different?’ conference, University College Dublin, 12 September 2012. 87 Peadar Kirby, Michael Cronin and Luke Gibbons (eds), Reinventing Ireland