Tag: By-Election
Gangsta Rap Politics: Middle Class, Middle Aged Journalists and their Vicarious Thrills.
For "polite society" or the segregated suburbs, the gangster becomes a vessel through which forbidden traits can be experienced indirectly - aggression, ruthlessness, rebellion, freedom from rules. Gangsta rap offers a safe, commodified view into a world they do not...
Seanad By-Elections 2021: Dáil Éireann’s Rotten Borough
The Seanad has very few powers in Ireland, and generally serves nowadays as less of a meritocratic chamber to scrutinise legislation or to represent Southern Unionists, and more as a placeholder for those with ambitions to be kept on life...