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    Tales from the Fifth Green Field: The Psychodynamics of Migration, Masculinity and National Identity amongst Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters in England

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    Free, M.(2007) 'Tales from the Fifth Green Field: The Psychodynamics of Migration, Masculinity and National Identity amongst Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters in England', Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics , Vol. 10(3), 476-494.
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    2007
    Author
    Free, Marcus
    Peer Reviewed
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    Free, M.(2007) 'Tales from the Fifth Green Field: The Psychodynamics of Migration, Masculinity and National Identity amongst Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters in England', Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics , Vol. 10(3), 476-494.
    Abstract
    Based on qualitative research on Irish soccer supporters in England in the 1990s it is argued that these supporters’ substantial devotions of time, emotion, imagination and money were psychic investments through which international soccer became a symbolic means of negotiating the contingency and vicissitudes of emigrant Irish national identity. However, this projected symbolism was inevitably contradictory. While collective gathering and drinking created a ‘liminal’ space through which individual lives’ spatio- temporal coordinates and uneven migrant biographies temporarily dissolved in rituals of national identification, these were inextricably intertwined with the construction and reconstruction of masculine identities, entailing occasions for both ‘bonding’ and internal mutual differentiation and disputes arising from disagreements regarding supporters’ origins and commitment. These were particularly significant for ‘second generation Irish’ supporters whose ‘Irishness’ was predicated on unambiguous masculine identity and continuity despite familial histories of migration, but whose ‘credentials’ as such were repeatedly questioned.
    Keywords
    Migration
    Masculinity
    National identity
    Soccer
    Language (ISO 639-3)
    eng
    Publisher
    Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group
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    The definitive version of this article was published in Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics(2007), Vol. 10(3), 476-494 and can be accessed at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17430430701333919 This article was also published subsequently in In: P. Darby & D. Hassan (Eds.),(2008) Emigrant Players: Sport and the Irish Diaspora. London: Routledge
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10395/1381
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