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Neil Matthews
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Politics lecturer, University of Bristol. Belfast-raised.
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For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"
March 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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markcoughlan.bsky.social
Election heads, get your nerd on.

Irishelection.com 2.0 at this link.

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November 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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peterallen.bsky.social
Myself and @ntmatthews.bsky.social have a new paper out in the Journal of Political Ideologies titled “New Labour and political myth”. It is available open access — www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract for journal article titled New Labour and political myth — The 1997 UK General Election preceded 13 years of New Labour government. It would be a further 14 years until the Labour Party next held office. Following the initial disavowal of New Labour by many in the wake of the 2010 General Election, these 14 years saw the emergence of a positive narrative regarding New Labour and its time in office – in addition to the reestablishment of what can be seen as ‘New Labour people’ reproducing this narrative – in the mainstream of British political life. In this paper, we use the concept of political myth to explore the persistence of the ideas, strategy, and personnel of New Labour. We begin by defining the concept of political myth in greater detail, drawing out its key features as outlined in the existing literature. We then introduce the case of New Labour, giving an account of the emergence of what we term the New Labour Myth. We then demonstrate how this case falls under the concept of political myth using evidence drawn from a variety of sources across the post-2010 period. Taken together, we argue that the New Labour Myth constitutes an important strain of thought in contemporary British politics.
November 28, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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martindoyle.bsky.social
The house band at the Irish Book Awards playing songs linked by theme or pun to each winning title (many of which tackle sensitive topics) as the authors take to the stage is an unacquired taste but playing War by Frankie Goes to Hollywood for The Atlas of the Irish Civil War was pure Alan Partridge
November 28, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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stefanmueller.bsky.social
For those interested in Irish politics, elections, and public opinion: @michelecrepaz.bsky.social and I maintain irishpoliticsdata.com, which provides links to dozens of datasets, dashboards, and publications.
#GE24
The Irish Politics Data project offers datasets, text corpora, and dashboards related to Irish politics. The website features polling results, national and cross-national surveys, election results, legislative data, party manifestos, parliamentary speeches, policy agendas, annual reports, and relevant literature from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The project aims to guide researchers, policymakers, journalists, and citizens to data and empirical literature on politics on the island of Ireland.
November 15, 2024 at 11:33 AM