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| Titre : | "A Fenian pastime"? Early Irish board games and their identification with chess (2010) |
| Auteurs : | Timothy HARDING, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 37 n 145 2010) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 1-22 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This article examines the role that chess, and board games of skill that were mistaken for chess, played in Irish cultural nationalism, particularly in the nineteenth century. It begins by situating the case study of chess in a broad context of discussions of cultural nationalism to which some historians have made important contributions recently. Linguistic problems associated with the translation of game names are then briefly reviewed. Thereafter, the focus shifts to examining how a succession of writers from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries found in the materials available to them the elements of what became the myth. Special attention is afforded the 1880s, the decade of the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (G.A.A) and the reinvigoration of Gaelic nationalism |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Timothy Harding |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
