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Sinn Féin: Comparison of election campaigns of 2020 Irish general election and of 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election
Dvouletá, Kristýna ; Špína, Vladimír (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis analyzes the social media political communication of Sinn Féin during the election campaigns to Dáil in 2020 and to Stormont in 2022. The thesis focuses on the analysis of the posts about Irish unification and the usage of populist communication. The analysis proceeds form the Lees-Marshment model of political marketing. Sinn Féin was a sales-oriented party in both elections, thus it promoted its main aim; Irish unity. However, the majority of the posts did not focus on unification. In both campaigns, Sinn Féin followed the electorate's needs. Sinn Féin evinces the features of a market-oriented party. Sinn Féin used populist communication in the majority of the posts. The party was more offensive during the campaign to Dáil. Firstly, the thesis presents the Lees-Marshment political marketing model and it describes the most important features of populist communication. Then, the thesis focuses on the description of the chosen quantitative content analysis. The theoretical framework describes the past and present of Sinn Féin, it focuses on the party's attitude towards populism. The second part of the thesis describes the political system in both countries. Then, the thesis describes the election campaigns. The results are presented in the last chapter.
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The Site of Memory: National Museum of Ireland and Commemoration of Easter Rising in the Proclaiming a Republic Exhibition
Špína, Vladimír ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
The Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising (2016-2020) exhibition was opened by the National Museum of Ireland as a part of the Decade of Centenaries project to commemorate the Easter Rising. This thesis understands the exhibition as a place of memory, which on the occasion of the centenary represents the official memory of the rising, and it aims to analyze this memory. The exhibition is perceived through the SANE framework as a mnemonic formation and the emphasis is put on narrative of the exhibition. Analysis of which is based on presumptions of the new museology, according to which modern museums utilize either hegemonic (celebratory, status quo-maintaining) or counter-hegemonic (minority, status quo-denying) narratives. The content of the exhibition (texts, exhibits, photographs), which was documented by the author of this thesis during repeated visits in 2017 and 2018, is subjected to thematic analysis. By applying the thematic network method, nine so-called global themes - macro-themes depicting who / what, how and by what is the exhibition commemorating - are identified within the narrative of the exhibition. The thesis determines that the exhibition, despite expectations of the new museology, reinforces traditional myths of the Easter Rising and employs predominantly dominant narratives....
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Catholic Church in Irish Free State 1922-1937: relationship between church and state
Špína, Vladimír ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
ŠPÍNA, Vladimír. Katolická církev v Irském svobodném státě 1922-1937: vztah církve a státu. Praha, 2016. 50 s. Bakalářská práce (Bc.) Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut mezinárodních studií. Vedoucí diplomové práce PhDr. Zuzana Kasáková, Ph.D. Abstract With the emergence of Irish Free State, the Catholic Church found a partner who happened to be catholic as well. The relationship between the church and the state was characterized by high influence which the church enjoyed in different spheres of society. This bachelor thesis examines the influence on two of them. The first chapter provides basic information about connection between nationalism and religion. The second chapter describes relationship of the church and the state in primary and secondary education and observes reluctance of the state to change status quo in any way and to contest strong status of the church, The third chapter deals with the topic of so-called "politics of morality" and notes the problems whose solution with accordance to catholic teaching was important for the church and the pressure which catholic groups put on politicians. Aside from providing basic insight into the situation, the goal of this work is to answer three questions: First, how was the relationship of the church and the state influenced by the...
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