Add to ORKGStudies of the relationships between sport and nationalism have often overlooked how different sports may depict alternative expressions of nationalism. This paper examines how social, cultural and political ideas associated with nationalism and national autonomy in Scotland touched the sport of shinty between 1887 and 1928. During this period the transformation of shinty from a traditional folk game to a modern sport was consolidated within Scottish Highland society. The paper probes some of the ways that shinty was contoured by, and connected to wider social, cultural and political circumstances of the period. Three strands are considered in the analysis: (i) the place of shinty as a conduit for aspirations of national autonomy; (ii) the ...
The central argument of this thesis is that football in Scotland has acquired characteristics which ...
The central argument of this thesis is that football in Scotland has acquired characteristics which ...
The rise of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in late 19th-century Ireland offers significant di...
Studies of the relationships between sport and nationalism have often overlooked how different sport...
Introduction: Amongst the growing body of literature on sport in Scotland a number of studies have e...
Introduction: Amongst the growing body of literature on sport in Scotland a number of studies have e...
This dissertation is based on fieldwork which was carried out in and around Edinburgh over a period ...
language nearly two thousand years ago by Irish missionaries. Indeed, it is worth noting, 1,400 year...
Nations and communities are created and represented through a myriad of different processes. Signifi...
Over the last two decades social scientists have examined the relationship between sport and express...
This article critically reflects upon the symbolic role of sport in relation to nationalism and nati...
This study examines the construction of cultural nationalism in Northern Ireland and Scotland post-1...
Over the last two decades, or more, there has been a considerable interest in the sociological analy...
The paper begins by outlining the key elements of the primordial approach to nations and nationalism...
The rise of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in late 19th-century Ireland offers significant di...
The central argument of this thesis is that football in Scotland has acquired characteristics which ...
The central argument of this thesis is that football in Scotland has acquired characteristics which ...
The rise of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in late 19th-century Ireland offers significant di...
Studies of the relationships between sport and nationalism have often overlooked how different sport...
Introduction: Amongst the growing body of literature on sport in Scotland a number of studies have e...
Introduction: Amongst the growing body of literature on sport in Scotland a number of studies have e...
This dissertation is based on fieldwork which was carried out in and around Edinburgh over a period ...
language nearly two thousand years ago by Irish missionaries. Indeed, it is worth noting, 1,400 year...
Nations and communities are created and represented through a myriad of different processes. Signifi...
Over the last two decades social scientists have examined the relationship between sport and express...
This article critically reflects upon the symbolic role of sport in relation to nationalism and nati...
This study examines the construction of cultural nationalism in Northern Ireland and Scotland post-1...
Over the last two decades, or more, there has been a considerable interest in the sociological analy...
The paper begins by outlining the key elements of the primordial approach to nations and nationalism...
The rise of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in late 19th-century Ireland offers significant di...
The central argument of this thesis is that football in Scotland has acquired characteristics which ...
The central argument of this thesis is that football in Scotland has acquired characteristics which ...
The rise of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in late 19th-century Ireland offers significant di...