Anthony P Mcintyre
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony P Mcintyre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcintyre |
| SIGNATURE | MCINTYRE A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8189-9577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ireland is full’: Populist grievance, microfascist desire and transnational whiteness in Irish anti-immigration discourse online
This study explores how populist binaries, microfascist normalisations and whiteness-based mobilisations converge in contemporary digital anti-immigration discourse, and, crucially, how Irishness is recoded as a node within transnational whiteness projects. Critically analysing posts on X (November 2023–January 2024) related to the 23 November 2023 Dublin riots, we demonstrate how populist framing portrays migrants as existential threats betrayed…
Expository Irishness, Garron Noone, and the politics of Irish differentiation in the 2020s
Social media spaces, and influencers, have come to play a central role in the recalibrating of Irishness following the Covid-19 pandemic. This article analyses the social media celebrity of Garron Noone whose (for the most part) non-threatening, de-sexualised likeability works in service of an “expository Irishness” that interpellates viewers at home and abroad. Noone’s signature element is the comic identification of national affective norms and…
Girl Dads: Spectacular girlhood, paternal appropriation, and the cultural dynamics of father-daughter filial attachment
This article examines the cultural figure of the girl dad, which has emerged as a prominent masculine sub-type in the 2020s, celebrating and spectacularising the father-daughter relationship. A diffuse presence across old and new media forms, we trace the girl dad's long-standing origins in film and television right up to its transmedial deployment in diverse contexts including professional self-branding on LinkedIn, a hit comedy special, and an …
Of wife guys and family defenders: Towards a typology of 21st century celebrity husbands
This article considers the cultural emergence and ramifications of two linked masculine cultural types: the ‘wife guy’ and the ‘family defender’. A cultural figure defined by an avowedly uxorious disposition and the public celebration of his spouse, the wife guy is a prominent exemplar of 21st century celebrity masculinity. This article argues that the wife guy typifies the strenuous lengths mainstream popular culture goes to negotiate the intrac…
Contemporary Irish Popular Culture: Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic
Protracted pandemic shut-downs, which began in Spring 2020, rapidly relocated workplaces to domestic spaces. This article explores how “home” as a distinctly gendered space has been recalibrated in the pandemic to accommodate a range of new uses. Detailing the ever-increasing scrutiny of and technological intrusion into the home/private space, we examine the now curtailed mobility of professional class workers and the conspicuous gendering of new…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Home Truths: Property TV, Financialization, and the Housing Crisis in Contemporary Ireland
This article examines how a specific form of lifestyle programming indexes both national concerns and transnational financial trends as well as diffuse social fissures in Irish life. Emerging in the late 1990s amid a construction boom, Irish property television adapted and thrived through the subsequent post-2008 crash, the concomitant implementation of austerity policies and an ensuing housing crisis. This boom-to-bust cycle was precipitated by …
Ireland Inc: The corporatization of affective life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Employing a framework of commercial nationalism, this article analyses how a post-Celtic Tiger Irish government aligned with elite interests has doubled down on its commitment to corporate citizenship. Despite the depredations of this era being directly attributable to the irrational exuberance of the Celtic Tiger period and lapses in financial regulation, Ireland post-2008 is marked by a radical forgetfulness and defined by ‘Shock Doctrine’ regu…
Broadcasting Irish emigration in an era of global mobility
This article examines how pre-existing Irish migratory cultural logics have been re-tooled in the post-Celtic Tiger period as a form of adaptation to the new imperatives of global capitalism. In this analysis, we show that just as Julien Mercille has discovered in regard to the Irish press and its role in normalizing and promoting neoliberal responses to the economic crisis, representations of the new emigration in the Irish broadcasting environm…
Isn’t She Adorkable! Cuteness as Political Neutralization in the Star Text of Zooey Deschanel
It has been argued that cuteness is emerging as one of the dominant aesthetic categories of the twenty-first century. In this essay, I analyze the star text of actress and singer Zooey Deschanel to trace the impact of cuteness on the political energies of “Millenials,” the generational cohort arguably most affected by the deleterious aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis. Deschanel is a particularly multi-mediated celebrity with an extensive p…
Timothy Shanahan: The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism
The status of most violent liberal democracy in the world is not one that any country or region, unless perversely enamoured of dysfunction, would seek to covet. Yet, some place has to get it, and
Dipak K. Gupta: Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise
Ekaterina A. Stepanova: Terrorism in Asymmetric Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects
As someone who served many years in prison for being a “terrorist,” I incline to bristle when meeting the term in the work of academics. The intense and prolonged Irish prison protests of three dec
Modern Irish republicanism: The product of British state strategies
The dynamic behind modern Irish republicanism is not an aspiration to complete the ‘unfinished business’. It is the structural exclusion, perceived and real, experienced by nationalists within the North of Ireland. Republicanism crystallises opposition to this exclusion. The British state has only ever had one consistent strategic objective ‐ to render ineffectual the military capacity of the IRA. This strategic thread has weaved its way through …
Modern Irish republicanism: The product of British state strategies
The dynamic behind modern Irish republicanism is not an aspiration to complete the ‘unfinished business’. It is the structural exclusion, perceived and real, experienced by nationalists within the North of Ireland. Republicanism crystallises opposition to this exclusion. The British state has only ever had one consistent strategic objective ‐ to render ineffectual the military capacity of the IRA. This strategic thread has weaved its way through …
Ireland Inc: The corporatization of affective life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Employing a framework of commercial nationalism, this article analyses how a post-Celtic Tiger Irish government aligned with elite interests has doubled down on its commitment to corporate citizenship. Despite the depredations of this era being directly attributable to the irrational exuberance of the Celtic Tiger period and lapses in financial regulation, Ireland post-2008 is marked by a radical forgetfulness and defined by ‘Shock Doctrine’ regu…
Broadcasting Irish emigration in an era of global mobility
This article examines how pre-existing Irish migratory cultural logics have been re-tooled in the post-Celtic Tiger period as a form of adaptation to the new imperatives of global capitalism. In this analysis, we show that just as Julien Mercille has discovered in regard to the Irish press and its role in normalizing and promoting neoliberal responses to the economic crisis, representations of the new emigration in the Irish broadcasting environm…
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic
Protracted pandemic shut-downs, which began in Spring 2020, rapidly relocated workplaces to domestic spaces. This article explores how “home” as a distinctly gendered space has been recalibrated in the pandemic to accommodate a range of new uses. Detailing the ever-increasing scrutiny of and technological intrusion into the home/private space, we examine the now curtailed mobility of professional class workers and the conspicuous gendering of new…
Isn’t She Adorkable! Cuteness as Political Neutralization in the Star Text of Zooey Deschanel
It has been argued that cuteness is emerging as one of the dominant aesthetic categories of the twenty-first century. In this essay, I analyze the star text of actress and singer Zooey Deschanel to trace the impact of cuteness on the political energies of “Millenials,” the generational cohort arguably most affected by the deleterious aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis. Deschanel is a particularly multi-mediated celebrity with an extensive p…
Home Truths: Property TV, Financialization, and the Housing Crisis in Contemporary Ireland
This article examines how a specific form of lifestyle programming indexes both national concerns and transnational financial trends as well as diffuse social fissures in Irish life. Emerging in the late 1990s amid a construction boom, Irish property television adapted and thrived through the subsequent post-2008 crash, the concomitant implementation of austerity policies and an ensuing housing crisis. This boom-to-bust cycle was precipitated by …
Of wife guys and family defenders: Towards a typology of 21st century celebrity husbands
This article considers the cultural emergence and ramifications of two linked masculine cultural types: the ‘wife guy’ and the ‘family defender’. A cultural figure defined by an avowedly uxorious disposition and the public celebration of his spouse, the wife guy is a prominent exemplar of 21st century celebrity masculinity. This article argues that the wife guy typifies the strenuous lengths mainstream popular culture goes to negotiate the intrac…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Modern Irish republicanism: The product of British state strategies
The dynamic behind modern Irish republicanism is not an aspiration to complete the ‘unfinished business’. It is the structural exclusion, perceived and real, experienced by nationalists within the North of Ireland. Republicanism crystallises opposition to this exclusion. The British state has only ever had one consistent strategic objective ‐ to render ineffectual the military capacity of the IRA. This strategic thread has weaved its way through …
Dipak K. Gupta: Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise
Ekaterina A. Stepanova: Terrorism in Asymmetric Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects
As someone who served many years in prison for being a “terrorist,” I incline to bristle when meeting the term in the work of academics. The intense and prolonged Irish prison protests of three dec
Timothy Shanahan: The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism
The status of most violent liberal democracy in the world is not one that any country or region, unless perversely enamoured of dysfunction, would seek to covet. Yet, some place has to get it, and
Isn’t She Adorkable! Cuteness as Political Neutralization in the Star Text of Zooey Deschanel
It has been argued that cuteness is emerging as one of the dominant aesthetic categories of the twenty-first century. In this essay, I analyze the star text of actress and singer Zooey Deschanel to trace the impact of cuteness on the political energies of “Millenials,” the generational cohort arguably most affected by the deleterious aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis. Deschanel is a particularly multi-mediated celebrity with an extensive p…
Broadcasting Irish emigration in an era of global mobility
This article examines how pre-existing Irish migratory cultural logics have been re-tooled in the post-Celtic Tiger period as a form of adaptation to the new imperatives of global capitalism. In this analysis, we show that just as Julien Mercille has discovered in regard to the Irish press and its role in normalizing and promoting neoliberal responses to the economic crisis, representations of the new emigration in the Irish broadcasting environm…
Ireland Inc: The corporatization of affective life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Employing a framework of commercial nationalism, this article analyses how a post-Celtic Tiger Irish government aligned with elite interests has doubled down on its commitment to corporate citizenship. Despite the depredations of this era being directly attributable to the irrational exuberance of the Celtic Tiger period and lapses in financial regulation, Ireland post-2008 is marked by a radical forgetfulness and defined by ‘Shock Doctrine’ regu…
Home Truths: Property TV, Financialization, and the Housing Crisis in Contemporary Ireland
This article examines how a specific form of lifestyle programming indexes both national concerns and transnational financial trends as well as diffuse social fissures in Irish life. Emerging in the late 1990s amid a construction boom, Irish property television adapted and thrived through the subsequent post-2008 crash, the concomitant implementation of austerity policies and an ensuing housing crisis. This boom-to-bust cycle was precipitated by …
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic
Protracted pandemic shut-downs, which began in Spring 2020, rapidly relocated workplaces to domestic spaces. This article explores how “home” as a distinctly gendered space has been recalibrated in the pandemic to accommodate a range of new uses. Detailing the ever-increasing scrutiny of and technological intrusion into the home/private space, we examine the now curtailed mobility of professional class workers and the conspicuous gendering of new…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Contemporary Irish Popular Culture: Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora
Girl Dads: Spectacular girlhood, paternal appropriation, and the cultural dynamics of father-daughter filial attachment
This article examines the cultural figure of the girl dad, which has emerged as a prominent masculine sub-type in the 2020s, celebrating and spectacularising the father-daughter relationship. A diffuse presence across old and new media forms, we trace the girl dad's long-standing origins in film and television right up to its transmedial deployment in diverse contexts including professional self-branding on LinkedIn, a hit comedy special, and an …
Of wife guys and family defenders: Towards a typology of 21st century celebrity husbands
This article considers the cultural emergence and ramifications of two linked masculine cultural types: the ‘wife guy’ and the ‘family defender’. A cultural figure defined by an avowedly uxorious disposition and the public celebration of his spouse, the wife guy is a prominent exemplar of 21st century celebrity masculinity. This article argues that the wife guy typifies the strenuous lengths mainstream popular culture goes to negotiate the intrac…
Ireland is full’: Populist grievance, microfascist desire and transnational whiteness in Irish anti-immigration discourse online
This study explores how populist binaries, microfascist normalisations and whiteness-based mobilisations converge in contemporary digital anti-immigration discourse, and, crucially, how Irishness is recoded as a node within transnational whiteness projects. Critically analysing posts on X (November 2023–January 2024) related to the 23 November 2023 Dublin riots, we demonstrate how populist framing portrays migrants as existential threats betrayed…
Expository Irishness, Garron Noone, and the politics of Irish differentiation in the 2020s
Social media spaces, and influencers, have come to play a central role in the recalibrating of Irishness following the Covid-19 pandemic. This article analyses the social media celebrity of Garron Noone whose (for the most part) non-threatening, de-sexualised likeability works in service of an “expository Irishness” that interpellates viewers at home and abroad. Noone’s signature element is the comic identification of national affective norms and…
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