Siobhan Doyle Importance of Sporting Imagery in Representing National Identity

SIOBHÁN DOYLE

The Importance of Sporting Imagery in Representing

National Identity

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 HindePostcards

-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 McCarthySaipan (2002)

Ronan O’ Gara and Chris Ashton (2011)

Katie Taylor (2012)

Clare GAA Fan (Sportsfile, 2013)

Sonia O’ Sullivan (2000)