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Intro -- Contents -- What Is St. Patrick's Day? -- Who Was St. Patrick? -- St. Patrick and the Irish -- Symbols of St. Patrick's Day -- How to Plant Shamrocks -- Leprechauns and Banshees -- Parades -- Irish Dancing -- How to Cook Irish Soda Bread -- Celebrating St. Patrick's Day -- Glossary -- Index -- Web Sites

Includes advertisements. ; Cover title. ; The line of march, order of procession, etc. -- Seventh annual banquet and ball of the Irish Literary Association -- Irish Literary Association programme --Grand military ball, Glan-Na-Gael Guards -- Grand social ball to be given under the auspices of the K.S.P. -- The fifth grand annual ball of St. Patrick's Hibernian Benevolent Society -- Twenty-fifth annual ball of the Hibernian Benevolent Society. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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Camp might be said to be a queer object to the extent that it resists any attempt to define it in language. This essay reads Patrick White's The Twyborn Affair as a demonstration of the more performative and affective understanding of camp that is needed to overcome the conceptual impossibility of camp's existence in language alone. This essay reconceptualizes camp as a performative and affective social phenomenon by reading the protagonist of White's text as an exemplary figure who resists disciplinary identity and legibility through a series of camp performances. Camp emerges at the conclusion of this essay as a mediation of a particular subject–object relation, and its emblem is the bandaid. For if shame appears to tyrannize the life of Twyborn's protagonist, that subjugation is not total: shame's performativity gives birth to a defiantly camp persona that re-routes shame as shamelessness. Camp advertises itself as a means of living in and living through performances of gender and sexuality. Shame is thus an important resource for both understanding the protagonist of White's text and understanding the camp politics of queer critique that (s)he embodies. Camp is a queer object that facilitates the healing of the shameful wound afflicting performative identities.

The present study investigates how attendees at national celebratory crowd events-specifically St. Patrick's Day parades-understand the role of such events in representing and uniting the national community. We conducted semi-structured interviews with people who attended St. Patrick's Day parades in either Dublin or Belfast. In year 1, full-length interviews were conducted before and after the events (N=17), and in years 1 and 2, shorter interviews were conducted during the events (year 1 N=170; year 2 N=142). Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis, allowing the identification of three broad themes. Participants reported that (i) the events extend the boundary of the national group, using participation to define who counts as Irish; (ii) the events strategically represent the nature of the national group, maximising positive images and managing stereotypical representations; and (iii) symbolism serves to unify the group but can also disrupt already fragile unity and so must be managed. Overall, this points to a strategic identity dimension to these crowd events. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research in terms of the role of large-scale celebratory events in the strategic representation of everyday social identities.

Anhand einer Analyse der St. Patrick's Day-Parade als Ausdruck irischer Ethnizität, die 1993 in Albany, New York, stattgefunden hat, wird untersucht, welche Botschaften die Teilnehmer dieser Veranstaltung haben und für wen und inwiefern Fragen der freien Meinungsäußerung und der Bürgerrechte aufgeworfen werden. Geschildert wird der Ablauf dieser Veranstaltung und die Konflikte, die an diesem Tag ausgetragen wurden. Verallgemeinernd festzustellen ist, dass in dem Maße, in dem das alltägliche Milieu ethnischen Lebens für europäische Einwanderer schrittweise verschwand und die Iren im amerikanischen Mainstream aufgingen, diese Veranstaltung wieder auflebte und an Popularität gewann. Der Autor zeigt, wie eine scheinbar ethnische Veranstaltung in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft durchaus zu einem Moment interkultureller Integration werden kann. (prh)

This article discusses the successful legal exclusion of Irish lesbians and gays from the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York and explores the ideologies of nation-space and public space that underpin this exclusion. It argues that the progression through urban space of the marches enforces compulsory heterosexuality, through actual and semiotic exclusion. Irish American nationalism can be read as illustrative of the heterosexualization of nationalism. It was the unquestioned assumption that being homosexual is antithetical to being Irish that provided the fundamental premise from which it was logically and successfully argued in U.S. courts: that the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization is a violent, obscene enemy bent on the destruction of Irish ethnicity and Irish communities. By contrast, the article holds up the parades in Cork and Dublin as designated inclusive and multicultural events, the nation-space of the Irish Republic economically liberated and wishing to communicate modernity to its citizens.

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