Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
For Liverpool and Ulster: a study of Liverpool supporters' clubs in Northern Ireland during the troubles. |
| Authors: |
Kennedy, David1 (AUTHOR) dkennedyd@hotmail.com |
| Source: |
Soccer & Society. Jan2026, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p58-76. 19p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*The Troubles, 1969-1994, *Fan clubs, *Soccer teams, *Sectarianism, *Soccer, *Communalism, Irish history |
| Geographic Terms: |
Liverpool (England), Ulster (Northern Ireland & Ireland), Northern Ireland |
| Company/Entity: |
Liverpool Football Club |
| Abstract: |
There is a general recognition in studies of association football in a Northern Irish context that the game has played its part in the reproduction of Protestant-Unionist hegemony in Northern Ireland. In the following study, an attempt is made to test the extent of football's reproduction of dominant power relations in Northern Ireland by providing a profile of Liverpool Football Club's support during the period of the Troubles. The English club has enjoyed huge and longstanding support in Northern Ireland. The objective here is to enquire whether their formal presence, in the shape of a network of supporter's clubs set up in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s through to the 1990s, contributed to the consolidation and reproduction of ethno-religious rivalries in this sectarian-riven society and reproduced dominant power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Database: |
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