Tag: Irish Politics
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...
“The Split”: Explaining Petty Factionalism in Irish Politics
A feature of Irish politics is the propensity of political parties to have splits usually resulting in resignations or expulsions. This is a feature of the Irish tendency towards hierarchy and collectivism. In order to function a political party requires...
Ireland’s Three Electorates: Examining Irish Polling Accuracy
Differences in polling among Ireland’s three major polling agencies are often treated as small methodological differences producing slightly different snapshots of the same electorate. Recent evidence suggests otherwise. The latest national surveys from Ipsos, Red C, and Ireland Thinks do...
Political Fragility & Slovak PM Robert Fico: Parliamentary Reforms for the Irish Republic
Stable governance is about more than just the consistency of party policy and action, but the calibre of people participating within the system. To reiterate Fico’s statement, debate “between the best for the best ideas.” Parties require the power to...
Kingship and Community: The Roots of Hierarchy in Irish Political Culture
The following was first published in 'The Occidental Quarterly' and is syndicated with permission. Features of Irish collectivism and hierarchy Ethnic groups organise their societies in particular ways according to their group psychological differences. These differences have been outlined by...
A Republic Without Ceremony: Ritual and the Irish State
The mourners massing to slowly shuffle past the remains of Elizabeth the Second in London’s Westminster Hall are drawn by more than just macabre fixation. A dull wooden box laying in a dusty hall inside a crumbling palace would do...
Terence MacSwiney Centenary: Modern Ireland and Historical Revisionism
Today marks the centenary of Terence MacSwiney’s death while in prison during the War of Independence. A playwright, poet, mayor of Cork and IRA commander, MacSwiney passed away after 74 days on hunger strike, bringing worldwide attention to the nationalist...
Thomas Davis on Patriotism as a Civic Virtue
The following is an extract from the famous patriotic speech given by the Young Ireland founder and nationalist journalist Thomas Davis to Trinity College’s The Hist, of which he was acting president at the time. Typifying the brand of mature...
The Erasure of Western History
Remember when you were told that slippery-slope arguments are fallacious? Such a style of argument became particularly relevant during the last decade, often invoked by the right and ridiculed by the left. A slippery-slope argument was at the core of...
Irish Antifa Project: Conclusion
Entering into this project we had a series of strategic objectives to attain, in order to make the project worth our while. Firstly, we wanted to show that even complacent leftist apparatchiks, who are ensconced in a world of established...