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Pop Culture References and Irish Politics - HELP!

  • 17-04-2013 11:29pm
    #1
    southsiderosie
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    I'm trying to finish my thesis, and I am sick to death of it. I need to make this process more interesting.

    I have one chapter on modern Irish politics, and since it is quite likely that no more than five people will read this thing - ever - I'd like to work in as many obscure pop culture references as possible. Does anyone have any ideas for Irish (or other) pop culture references that reflect/describe/tie into Irish political culture that don't involve Father Ted or the Commitments?


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  • #2
    orestes
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    Do we get credited as co-authors for this?


  • #3
    southsiderosie
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    orestes wrote: »
    Do we get credited as co-authors for this?

    LOL - AH can get a citation. :D


  • #4
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Asking AH for something that's not a Father Ted quote? Jesus, good luck.


  • #5
    the groutch
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    southsiderosie wrote: »
    Does anyone have any ideas for Irish (or other) pop culture references that reflect/describe/tie into Irish political culture that don't involve Father Ted or the Commitments?

    That would be an ecumenical matter.


  • #6
    Latchy
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    Boomtown Rats ''Banana Republic '' springs to mind and that was released back in the 1980's.


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  • #7
    Cody Pomeray
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    Fidelma and Miley in the hayshed.
    -A watershed moment in Irish sexual awareness; downfall of the family; led to Biddy's hysterical atheism and assassination by the Catholic Church


  • #8
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Mary Coughlan's My Land is too Green was a great favourite of the Irish expats living in the UK in the 80s. Many a drunken, tearful, angry rant was inspired by its lyrics.


    It's on youtube.


  • #9
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    What about Brian Cowen's "painting" by Conor Casby(?)in the national gallery?

    You know that painting?


  • #10
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #11
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Riverdance

    Seen the world over and made Irish dancing a household name for a while


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  • #12
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Gubu!

    Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.


  • #13
    southsiderosie
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Asking AH for something that's not a Father Ted quote? Jesus, good luck.

    I know. :( The 'racist' episode alone could get three or four references.


  • #14
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    A friend of mine worked in quotes from "The Wire", P.T. Barnum's "The Art of Money Getting", and George Orwell's "1984" into his thesis.

    Fantastic work.


  • #15
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    probably too obscure for a cultural reference OP, but an Irish movie called Hush-a-bye-Baby is on TG4 right now with bouts of Gay Byrne for added nostalgia.


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
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    Dustin for president!


  • #17
    Tomohawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Tomohawk


    Paranoid Visions are an infamous punk band from Dublin, Ireland who formed in 1982. They released an EP (remember them) in 1991 called "Politician" aimed at the boys in the Dail.


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