In search of EUROPA - CILL MHANTAIN Representation and Discrepancy

To every place there belongs a story . . . .

CILL MHANTAIN

The LODE-Line and LODE-zone in Eire crosses the eastern coast of Ireland here at Wicklow. The LODE cargo crate and pamphlet, and now the Re:LODE blog, use the old name for this place on the edge of the Irish Sea. There is some controversy as to the origins of the old Irish name for modern Wicklow, Cill Mhantain.

Thinking again about who we really are!

Rebellion, memory and history - Divide and Rule!







Since the LODE project in 1992 there have been significant changes in social experience and accompanying attitudes in Eire, that have produced an appetite for social change, and the creation of a new social and cultural environment. This includes a new sense of freedom for individuals to express their sense of self and identity in an increasingly open and confident manner.
 

Fixed or fluid?

Whilst the economic growth in the Irish economy from 1995-2000 must have had some impact upon the social and cultural fabric of Irish society, perhaps it has been the access young people have in Ireland to a free education system that has widened social attitudes. 

This enlightened approach in education policy has furthered shifts in attitude amongst young people, who are also well equipped to use and work with the contemporary information environment. Engagement with this environment is itself shaping perceptions of both the self and the wider world, and also forms an integral part of a knowledge-based economy.

Celtic Tiger

Tiger or Tigger?

Mrs Brown and the reinvention of Ireland! 






"Culture is not some vague fantasy of fulfilment, but a set of potentials bred by history and subversively at work within it."
Terry Eagleton, The Idea of Culture 

This quote is used by Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin in the Introduction to their The Reinvention of Ireland: A Critical Perspective.

Please find below some selected quotes from this text which can be also found here on the Reinvention of Ireland page.

To every story there belongs another . . . 

 



This blog-post is a matrix that originates first in the context of an artistic activity that relates to this place, Cill Mhantain, and then connections multiply through processes of association, suggesting links, articulations and juxtapositions that the contemporary information wrap affords us, in a particular and contemporary type of consciousness, where the "loop" or "ricorso" helps the zig zagging necessary to see what is going on.

That's just the way it is . . . but don't you believe them . . .