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Library J Aungler Str£tt EDITORIAL Tel: 4013068 I......... ___ . __ ~----··- 3 Finding an Irish Voice: Reflections on Celtic Consumer Society and Social Change Alan Bradshaw, Pierre McDonagh & David Marshall ARTICLES 6 Subversive Consumption: Nineteenth Century Irish Immigrants in America Linda Scott 27 Branding Irish Cinema: Reflections upon Celtic Consumer Society and Social Change in Dublin Pat Brereton 40 Those Left Behind: Inequality in Consumer Culture Kathy Hamilton feelings of exclusion from 'normal' consumption dominated 55 Home Confined Consumers' Freedom through Surrogate Activities: the Role of Personal Communities Hilary Downey & Miriam Catterall 77 Magners Man: Irish Cider, Representations of Masculinity and the 'Burning Celtic Soul' Pauline Maclaran and Lorna Stevens 89 Brand Ireland Anthony Patterson AFTERWORD 99 Marketing Died Today. 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It is organised in six discipline-related faculties: Applied Arts, Built Environment, Business, Engineering, Science, and Tourism and Food. It has a total enrol­ ment of 23,000 students, including ro,ooo full-time third level students and over 500 postgraduate and other post-third level students. Printed by ColourBooks Limited, Dublin Editorial Finding an Irish Voice: Reflections on Celtic Consumer Society and Social Change Alan Bradshaw, Pierre McDonagh & David Marshall Today, the old rural national image is on the wane 'common life produced a kind of unification of phys­ and the country currently likes to represent itself as a ical types in a sort of habitus common to all' (p. 82). thriving, energetic, cosmopolitan place, a vibrant he perceives diversity within the unity, but reduces multicultural hub of postindustrial, information-age that diversity to a division into four groups- Goidels, entrepreneurial activity. The revels of the comely Piers, Brythons (including the Gauls) and Belgae ... maidens dancing of the local townland now are he (Hubert) reveals the close relations between ended or linger only as national kitsch; the country Germans and Celts, and the influence exerted by prefers instead a corporate quick-step on a global Celtic culture on Germanic, extending, indeed, crossroads between Boston, Bermuda and Berlin. beyond the Germans to the Balto-Slavs and Finns (p. (Cleaty and Connolly, 2005, p. xiii) 68). This influence is manifest in linguistic and mate­ rial borrowings ... The Celts seem to have been for As this opening quote suggests, much change is afoot long ages the schoolmasters of the Germanic peoples'. in Ireland and not only has the country joined the surge of consumer society in a rush to be Ikeaised and This special edition looks at how consumption and Starbucked but it has done so with its usual display consumer society plays a part in that (re)construc­ of swagger and style. This special issue of Irish tion of identity through commercial activities and Marketing Review arose from 'Finding an Irish Voice: the consumption and use of goods which serve to Reflections on Celtic Consumer Society and Social convey and transpose meaning from the world of Change', an international workshop organised by the Celtic culture to the world of goods (McCracken, Centre for Consumption Studies (CCS) (www. 1990) or through the prism of what Stephen Brown ccs.dcu.ie) at Dublin City University in October has labelled Celtic Marketing Concepts. 2007. The event was attended by academics and prac­ While the recent flurry of economic and political titioners with a range of professional interest in con­ activity characterised by the Celtic Tiger and the sumer society, and forms the backcloth to what you peace process in the North has brought a number of read here. From this exchange it became clear that profound changes, to what extent has this emerging there remains some degree of ambivalence in looking consumer society lead to greater equality, healed old at cultural identity and simple binary categorisations divisions or created new ones, and brought happiness such as Communist Fascist, Master Slave, Caucasian or distress to the citizens? Not least, how we consume Black, Male Female, Straight Gay, Apprentice Loser, and its consequences (McDonagh, 1995, 1997) has Croat Serb, Jew Arab, Good Evil, Roman Barbarian much to contribute to our theory on contemporary or, in our case, Anglo-Saxon Celt fail to capture the consumption. Social change of itself within con­ essence of contemporary consumer existence.