As it took me some time for me to organize interviews (or indeed receive any responses), I initially had to focus my making on freely available sources from the internet. The bulk of these I found the reddit forum r/Ireland.
I found this interesting terms of my enquiry, with the process being representative of the cyclical contrtsutcion of culture (national or otherwise) in a hyper-connected world.
An (extremely truncated) reading of this might be…
National Icons are created >
National icons are exported and modified >
Modified national icons are reimported >
National icons are integrated and re-disseminated domestically and abroad
This is potent in the case of Ireland as a small island nation which relies on its large, world-wide diaspora and status as a tax haven for multi-national corporations to prosper.
Indeed, the results AI text-to-image generators can also be seen to represent a global, networked view of a given image. Created, as they are, by an algorithm trained on the collation and aggregation of innumerable similar images from across the web.
u/ Hectorh
I didn’t mind the decapitated head at all. But that eyeball scared the shit outa me as a youth.. And I remember some ghostly figured appearing behind a glass pane at the start of the tour. Bit of Disney mirror trickery. Would love a retour now ha
Reddit (2022) Anybody have any info / memories of celtworld? Available at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/8ruf2q/does_anybody_have_any_infomemories_of_celtworld/ (Accessed: 27 October 2022).
Reddit (2022) Do Any of You Remember Celtworld? Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/pnkz4y/do_any_of_you_remember_celtworld/ (Accessed: 27 October 2022).