'Something That Unites Us All': Understandings of St. Patrick's Day Parades as Representing the Irish National Group

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 61-74

  O'Donnell, Aisling T ^a   Muldoon, Orla T ^a   Blaylock, Danielle L ^b   Stevenson, Clifford ^b   Bryan, Dominic ^b   Reicher, Stephen D ^c   Pehrson, Samuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowd psychology; National identity; Parades; Rituals; Social identity; Thematic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954388676     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.2236     Document Type: Article

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