Irish-language broadcasting: history, ideology and identity

Cultural Identity and Ideology

For many of today’s social theorists and cultural critics, questions of identity are a central concern. In this paper I examine one highly influential strand of theorising about identity, associated primarily with the discipline of Cultural Studies. Here, whilst identity is certainly a key focus, it is also one which some have begun to question. Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding, for instance...

History and National Identity Construction: The Great Famine in Irish and Ukrainian History Textbooks

Identity-Based Broadcasting

In this paper, we introduce a new concept called “IdentityBased Broadcasting Encryption” (IBBE), which can be applied to dynamic key management in secure broadcasting. Based on this new concept, in the proposed system a broadcaster can dynamically add or remove a user to or from the receiver group without any involvement of users. We classify our systems into three different scenarios and give ...

Language and Ideology in Congress

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

Irish surgeons and Australian history.

IRISH blood, flowing in the veins of the Australian nation, makes it different from other races of the old Empire. Much of the Irish heritage of courage, warmth, good humour, love of song and poetry, and argument, and Irish hospitality, permeates our national character. It has seemed to me that we do not appreciate each other as close relatives and members of a family as we should, and that we ...