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| Titre : | Challenges to social order and Irish identity? : Youth culture int he sixties (2013) |
| Auteurs : | Carole HOLOHAN, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (Vol. 38 n 151 2013) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 389-405 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | In 1967 Fr Walter Forde, an activist in the field of youth welfare work, noted 'signs of unrest' amongst Irish youths growing up in the sixties. He identified the ways in which they were 'being influenced by English teenage culture'. Ten years previously, the British magazine Everybody's Weekly had expressed similar concerns about the influence of American youth culture on British youths, asking its readers 'Are we turning our children into little Americans?' This unease, like Forde's, reflected the fluid and international nature of youth culture in the years after the Second World War. New genres of film, fashion and music catered exclusively for young people, while developments in communications enabled more of them to experience their youth together. As a spending rather than saving subsection of society, young people appeared particularly well placed to benefit from the economic 'miracles' witnessed in both the United States and a number of industrialised European countries. In contrast, poor economic performance had produced high levels of youth emigration in Ireland which, when combined with low levels of industrialisation and urbanisation, hampered the development of highly visible youth subcultures |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Carole Holohan |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
