Performative nationalism.
Large organisations in the private sector do not generally pluck a teacher from a school in Kerry to manage them. So why does the electorate do that, with the department of education?
A bigger home market
Hardline nationalists who’ve spent a lifetime wanting the Brits out now find that they must simultaneously argue that the Crown is an honourable and generous institution that will aid their cause.
This, I’m afraid, is what most organisations, and the country, would look like in a United Ireland. And yet for some reason, the most devoted nationalists are very upset by it.
The best hope of Irish unity campaigners could be that a generation intent on violence will be met with a generation determined to teach them a lesson in justice.
When the leader of Sinn Féin walked through the streets of New York calling on England to “get out of Ireland”, she forgot to include an asterisk. Mary-Lou McDonald, the Dublin leader of the party, is most definitely capable of delivering a speech in the Dáil, often calling out the blindspots of her opponents in […]
The former taoiseach said a border poll could take place on the 30th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
Fianna Fáil’s newly elected TD for Wexford, Malcolm Byrne, is making some waves today on the subject of Irish unity. Hugh O’Connell in the Independent has the full story: “A Fianna Fáil TD has suggested that a united Ireland could rejoin the Commonwealth, make July 12 a public holiday and reserve 30pc of Cabinet positions […]