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Speaking through walls: political murals in Northern Ireland
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| Title | Speaking through walls: political murals in Northern Ireland |
| Speaker | Crowley, Tony
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| Contributors | Vince, Pat (introduction) |
| Subjects | Lectures and lecturing
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Ireland
Ireland--Symbolic representation
Street art
Murals
Republicans
Loyalists
Sinn Féin
Nationalists
IRA Volunteers
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| Coverage-Spatial | Northern Ireland |
| Description | From the start of The Troubles in 1969 to the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland was the site of a violent conflict fought out between the British State, the Irish Republican Movement, and Loyalist Paramilitary Forces. Essentially a struggle over political and cultural identity and legitimacy, the war left over three thousand dead and tens of thousands injured in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Britain. Tony Crowley, author of Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004 (Oxford, 2005, winner of the ACIS Durkan Prize) will follow the development of an aesthetic aspect of this history, showing how the political murals - which began to appear at the end of the 1970s - became an important means of self-representation, self-reflection, and dialogue for the various warring parties. The presentation will include discussion of digital images of the murals (an incipient project of the Claremont Colleges Digital Library) as a way of exploring how the paintings served not simply to express political viewpoints but to create physical and conceptual spaces. |
| Notes | Rosenkranz, Adam (lecture organizer). The mural photographs depicted in this video can be viewed in the CCDL collection, Murals of Northern Ireland http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/mni/ |
| Publisher | The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges
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| Date | 2006-10-26 |
| Language | eng
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| Source | Original digital video cassette: 60 minute DVM of lecture by Tony Crowley |
| Relation | Claremont Discourse Lectures http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cdl/ |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws. |
| Type | Moving Image
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| Object File Name | cdl00003 |
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