The Importance of Sporting Imagery in Representing National Identity
SIOBHĂ N DOYLE
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 Hinde Postcards -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 McCarthy Saipan (2002)
Ronan O’ Gara and Chris Ashton (2011)
Katie Taylor (2012)
Clare GAA Fan (Sportsfile, 2013)
Sonia O’ Sullivan (2000)