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Niamh Kitching
Researcher at Mary Immaculate College
Publications - 21
Citations - 105
Niamh Kitching is an academic researcher from Mary Immaculate College. The author has contributed to research in topics: National identity & Athletes. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 16 publications receiving 62 citations. Previous affiliations of Niamh Kitching include Limerick Institute of Technology.
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'Practice" makes perfect: locating young people in golf club culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present FIGURES, TABLES, PRE-CHAPTER EXTRACTS and PRE-CHARGE EXTRANSACTS of a pre-chapter.
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‘Battle of the sixes’: Investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men’s tour event:
Ali Bowes,Niamh Kitching +1 more
TL;DR: In May 2018, the men's European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players as mentioned in this paper, which was significant.
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‘Our wee country’: national identity, golf and ‘Ireland’
Katie Liston,Niamh Kitching +1 more
TL;DR: The careers of professional golfers offer a noteworthy opportunity to examine the ways in which national identity is imagined, constructed and experienced as mentioned in this paper, and they examine the nexus of national identity and sport.
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‘Wow these girls can play’: sex integration in professional golf
Ali Bowes,Niamh Kitching +1 more
TL;DR: Men and women typically operate in separate spaces in the sporting world, with sport being one of the few social institutions that continues to segregate the two sexes as discussed by the authors, and the culture of golf, like sp...
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Selling Scotland? Selling women’s golf? The 2019 Solheim Cup in the ‘Home of Golf’
TL;DR: In 2019, Scotland played host to the Solheim Cup, a competition contested by leading women professional golfers representing Europe and the United States as mentioned in this paper, which was given further political sign...