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From I to we : participants’ accounts of the development and impact of shared identity at large-scale displays of Irish national identity

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Date
2021
Author
Blaylock, Danielle
Stevenson, Clifford
O'Donnell, Aisling
Reicher, Stephen D.
Bryan, Dominic
Neville, Fergus Gilmour
Muldoon, Orla
Funder
Economic & Social Research Council
Grant ID
RES-062-23-1140
Keywords
Collective experience
Collective participation
Crowd events
Shared identity
Social identity
Parades
Ritual
Ireland
St Patrick's Day
Easter Rising
BF Psychology
E-NDAS
AC
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Abstract
In Ireland, ritual events and parades have been a central part of civic and public life. However, there is limited understanding of the identity processes at work at these collective events. The present research aims to examine how participants attending collective events come to recognise shared social identification and the impact that this awareness is reported to have on intragroup processes. Interview data were collected over the course of two years at the St Patrick’s Day parade and 1916 Easter Rising commemorations in Dublin and Belfast with both participants and attendees at the events. Thematic analysis revealed that to the extent that individuals saw the event as an identity event, they used attendance as their primary indication of shared identity, along with visual identity markers, shared experiences, and shared affects. Participants’ accounts of the experience of shared identity focused upon a range of cognitive, affective, and social variables which together suggested a relational transformation in the crowd. These findings suggest that shared identity is an emergent state which plays a critical role in transforming social relations within the collective.
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Blaylock , D , Stevenson , C , O'Donnell , A , Reicher , S D , Bryan , D , Neville , F G & Muldoon , O 2021 , ' From I to we : participants’ accounts of the development and impact of shared identity at large-scale displays of Irish national identity ' , Irish Political Studies , vol. 36 , no. 1 , pp. 92-108 . https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1877896
Publication
Irish Political Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1877896
ISSN
0790-7184
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This research was supported by matched grants from the Irish Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council (RES-062-23-1140).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23687

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