This article argues that the Brexit campaign and subsequent rise of Boris Johnson to Prime Minister has seen campaigns and assumptions (such as anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism) that were ...previously associated with far-right groups and parties enter the mainstream political discourse. It suggests that this has been due to an organic crisis that has been prevalent within British political civil society since the Brexit vote. A crisis that has seen socialist, free market and popular nationalist projects all stake claims to develop competing visions of post-Brexit Britain and which has been intensified by the success of Celtic nationalism. This article will suggest that Boris Johnson's government is attempting to co-opt such right-wing forces by engaging with much of its rhetoric as he attempts to construct his own post-Brexit reality - a reality that is fraught with inconsistencies and contradictions.
Im Jahr 2020 feierte das Keltenmuseum Hallein sein 50-jähriges Jubiläum. Als eines der bedeutendsten archäologischen Fundortmuseen Europas zeigt es die spektakulären Funde der Salzmetropole auf dem ...Dürrnberg, die im Netzwerk der europäischen Eisenzeit als wirtschaftliche Drehscheibe und kultureller Impulsgeber diente. Die bis zu 2500 Jahre alten Relikte aus Siedlungen, Gräbern und Salzbergwerken stehen seit jeher im Fokus der „Archäologie der Kelten“ und sind programmatischer Namensgeber des 1970 eröffneten Museums. Seine Wurzeln gehen indes bis in die Tage des ersten bildungsbürgerlichen Engagements für Lokalgeschichte und Archäologie zurück. Als Halleiner Heimatmuseum und erstes Museum im Land Salzburg in den 1830er-Jahren etabliert, war die Institution bis in das 20. Jh. vor allem der jüngeren Geschichte der Salinenstadt verpflichtet und entwickelte sich erst seit den 1950er-Jahren zum archäologischen Museums- und Forschungszentrum, das heute inoffiziell als Salzburger Zentralmuseum für Urgeschichte firmiert. Als Forschungsinstitution in der Tradition des Österreichischen Forschungszentrums Dürrnberg verfolgt die mit dem Museum assoziierte Dürrnbergforschung internationale und interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitungsprojekte und Forschungsinitiativen in der Gräber- und Siedlungsarchäologie sowie der Archäometrie.
In 2020, the Keltenmuseum Hallein celebrated its 50th anniversary. As one of the most important archaeological site museums in Europe, it exhibits the spectacular finds of the Dürrnberg salt metropolis, which served as an economic centre and cultural catalyst in the network of Iron Age Europe. The relics from settlements, graves and salt mines, which are up to 2,700 years old, have always been the focus of an ‘Archaeology of the Celts’ and are thus the programmatic eponym of the museum, which opened in 1970. Its roots, however, go back to the days when the educated middle-classes first developed an interest in local history and archaeology. Established in the 1830s as Hallein’s museum of local history, until the 20th century the institution was mainly dedicated to the medieval and more recent history of the salt-mining town. It was only in the 1950s that it developed into an archaeological museum and research centre, today unofficially known as Salzburg’s central museum of prehistory. As a research institution in the tradition of the Austrian Research Centre Dürrnberg, the Dürrnberg Research Department, which is associated with and located at the museum, pursues international and interdisciplinary scientific projects and initiatives in burial and settlement archaeology, and archaeometry.
The nineteenth century saw an extensive cult of the heroic fortitude of the British soldier in surgery. Tales of men laughing through unanaesthetised operations were endlessly repeated in newspapers, ...military memoirs, surgical literature and boy's own stories. However, the identity of the "British soldier" was by no means obvious, since the British state itself was multi-ethnic. This paper considers thinking on the 'natural' martial qualities of 'Celtic' Scottish and Irish soldiers and how they were reflected in discussions of what behaviour could be expected in surgery, considering the impact of cultural explanations, racial theory and implicit political agendas.
In this paper, we argue that Ireland's post-crisis economic recovery in Europe was driven by foreign direct investment (FDI) from Silicon Valley, and while this growth model was made possible by ...Ireland's low-corporate tax rates, it was also a result of these firms using Ireland to directly access the European labour market. We evidence this contention via sectoral and geographic analyses while simultaneously showing that Irish fiscal policies have not redistributed gains from the recovery to the broader population. As a result, the economic recovery has been most actively felt by those in the FDI sectors, including workers from the EU and beyond. Building on theories from the study of comparative capitalism, we suggest that this experience indicates that Ireland's FDI-led growth model has created clear winners and losers, with significant distributional implications. The FDI growth regime been made possible by inward migration and European integration, but given the unequal distribution of the economic benefits that this generates, it is unlikely to be politically, or electorally, sustainable.
Intergroup relations in settler societies have been defined by historical conflict over territorial ownership between indigenous peoples and settler majorities. However, the indigenous groups were ...there first, and first arrival is an important principle for assigning ownership to a group. In two studies among Australians of Anglo-Celtic origin (
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