The Cork Catholic Missionary Exhibition, 1937: Negotiating the Irish representation of Indigenous peoples

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dc.contributor.authorLinehan, Denis
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-28T14:59:48Z
dc.date.available2022-06-28T14:59:48Z
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.date.updated2022-06-27T11:40:06Z
dc.description.abstractBetween 1932 and 1937, four Catholic Missionary Exhibitions were held in Ireland. These shows, which attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, offer remarkable insights into the structure and outlook of the Irish Catholic missionary enterprise. Their elaborate engagements with visual and material culture mobilised an imaginative and social engagement with foreign peoples and lands that reflect a distinctive cultural history of race and difference. In this chapter, I will reflect on the general character of the Missionary exhibitions in modern Ireland but focus in detail on the Cork Missionary Exhibition of 1937, in part because it has been neglected historically and also because of the novel way it set out to represent Indigenous People, which up to this time and indeed after, were consistently racially stereotyped. As I proceed, I will draw upon the cultural histories of exhibition space, curating, and collections, which offer insights into the significance of objects and how they are mobilised in various forms of knowledge production. My contribution here is also guided by work in historical and cultural geography, which has recast exhibitions as a particular kind of urban assemblage, a gathering of tangible and intangible ideas reproduced through the regimes of curation and inter-mobility of objects, people and experiences.en
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dc.identifier.citationLinehan, D. (2023) 'The Cork Catholic Missionary Exhibition, 1937: Negotiating the Irish representation of Indigenous peoples', In: Ireland and Missions: Identity, Nation and Empire in the 19th-20th Centuries, Belfast: Wiles Trust, forthcoming publication.en
dc.identifier.endpage20en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13326
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiles Trusten
dc.relation.ispartofIreland and Missions: Identity, Nation and Empire in the 19th-20th Centuries,
dc.relation.ispartof"Ireland & Missions. Identity, Nation and Empire in the 19-20th C.", Wiles Colloquium 2019, Belfast, September 2019, Belfast
dc.subjectNation and Empire in the 19th-20th Centuriesen
dc.subjectBelfast: Wiles Trust.en
dc.subjectNationen
dc.subjectEmpireen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titleThe Cork Catholic Missionary Exhibition, 1937: Negotiating the Irish representation of Indigenous peoplesen
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