Irish Communication Review Volume 8 Issue 1 Article 5 January 2000 Driving Ireland past the Chequered Flag: Jordan Grand Prix, Formula One and National Identity Eoin Kirk Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/icr Part of the Communication Technology and New Media Commons Recommended Citation Kirk, Eoin (2000) "Driving Ireland past the Chequered Flag: Jordan Grand Prix, Formula One and National Identity," Irish Communication Review: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 5. doi:10.21427/D7SQ77 Available at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/icr/vol8/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Current Publications at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Irish Communication Review by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License IRISH COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW VOL82000 Eoin Kirk is a graduate Driving Ireland past the of the MA in Media Studies at Dublin Chequered Flag: Jordan rand Institute of Technology. Prix, Formula and National Identity Eoin Kirk launch Sport has changed. The nineteenth century rationale of amateurism, fair play and recreational participation has given way in the age of mass media and late capitalism to the staging of sport as commercial entertainment (Wenner, 1998; Whitson. 1998). While televised sport may work to create connections between people who have not yet met and are not likely to do so, it too, has slowly transformed these very relationships between sporting individuals and teams and the communities they supposedly represent (Whitson, 1998; Rowe et.