@article {O'Kelly:Summer 2004:0017-257X:504,
	author = "O'Kelly, Ciaran",
	title = "Politics of Identity V : Being Irish",
	journal = "Government and Opposition",
	volume = "39",
	year = "Summer 2004",
	abstract = "<P></P>This article is one of a series commissioned by <I>Government and Opposition</I> exploring identity politics in several national and international contexts. Though ostensibly a civic republic, Ireland has been shaped by a certain conception of Irish culture. Cultural claims are typically political but have the potential to allow community interests to override concern for individual well-being. The construction of the Irish state focused on the maintenance of an idea of being Irish rather than on the welfare of people throughout Ireland, both North and South. As a result, a conservative formulation of Irish identity was locked into the state's structures.",
	pages = "504-520(17)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/gao/2004/00000039/00000003/art00005"
	doi = "doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2004.00132.x"
}