Multimodal analysis of a sample of political posters in Ireland during and after the Celtic Tiger

The aim of this research paper is to analyse the key political posters made for the campaigns of Irish political party Fianna Fáil framed in the Celtic Tiger (1997-2008) and post-Celtic Tiger years (2009-2012). I will then focus on the four posters of the candidate in the elections that took place in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2011 with the intention of observing first how the leader is represented, and later on pinpointing the similarities and possible differences between each. This is important in order to observe the main linguistic and visual strategies used to persuade the audience to vote that party and to highlight the power of the politician. Critical discourse analysis tools will be helpful to identify the main discursive strategies employed to persuade the Irish population to vote in a certain direction. Van Leeuwen’s (2008) social actor theory will facilitate the understanding of how participants are represented in the corpus under analysis. Finally, the main tools of Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar (2006) will be applied for the analysis of the images. The study reveals that politicians are represented in a consistently positive way, with status and formal appearance so that people are persuaded to vote for the party they represent because they trust them as political leaders. The study, thus, points out that the poster is a powerful tool used in election campaigns to highlight the power of political parties.

Information Guide: Reino Unido. October 2015

Una guía informativa sobre el Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte, con hipervínculos a información en European Sources Online y a otros sitios web (For other language versions of this record click on the original url)

Obras.

v. 1. Poesias -- v. 2. Tragedias -- v. 3-6. Los trovadores -- v. 7. Discursos académicos y memorias literarias -- v. 8. El monasterio de Piedra ; Las leyendas del Montserrat ; Las cuevas de Montserrat -- v. 9-19. Historia de Cataluna -- v. 20-22. Les calles de Barcelona en 1865 -- v. 23-24. En el ministerio de Ultramar -- v. 25. Mis recuerdos de Italia -- v. 26-27. Novelas -- v. 28-29. Tragedias -- v. 30-31. Poesias catelanas -- v. 32. Los juegos florales en España ; Memorias y discursos -- v. 33. Las guerras de Granada -- v. 34. Tragedias -- v. 35. Disquisiciones históricas -- v. 36. Añoranzas.

Obras de Gustavo A. Becquer.

1. Leyendas.--t. 2. Leyendas, Desde mi celda: Cartas literarias.--t. 3. Articulos varios. Rimas. [Bosquejos]

The history of the reign of George the Third from his accession in 1760 till the present time : with an introduction exhibiting the state of the chief European nations at the period of his accession /

Sólo los vols. I y IV por Macfarlan

Memoirs of a Magdalen or The history of Louisa Mildway : now first published from a series of original letters, in two volumes ; vol.I [-II]

Mode of access: Internet.

A papist mis-represented and represented or A two-fold charactery of Popery : the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries and wicked principles of that Popery which ... deserves the hatred of all good Christians, the other laying open that Popery, which the Papists own and profess ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

The spectator.

Mode of access: Internet.

A critical analysis of the new operation for a cataract /

Mode of access: Internet.

Traité des causes et symptomes de la pierre, et des principaux remedes en usage pour guérir cette maladie ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Liber de oculo morali.

Mode of access: Internet.

Discurso sobre si se le puede hazer fiesta al primer padre del genero humano Adan y darle culto... como a santo sin licencia del romano pontifice y un resumen latino suplicando a... Urbano VIII. .. decreto sobre esta materia... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Historical and critical memoirs of the life and writings of M. de Voltaire : interspersed with numerous anecdotes, poetical pieces ..., particularly the life of the celebrated J.B. Rousseau as written by Voltaire, and the history of the famous libellous couplets /

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of Paraguay : containing ... a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the savage natives ... establishments allowed to have realized the sublime ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato /

Mode of access: Internet.

Obras literarias del precoz niño don Jesús Rodríguez Cao.

Contiene: T. I: Biografías y poemas (1869. XII, 434 p., [1] h. retr.) -- T. II: Leyendas en prosa y verso y Ensayos épicos -- T. III: Obras dramáticas (1870. XVI, 521 p.) -- T. IV: Poesías, novelas, cuentos, trabajos periodísticos y Corona.