The Irish presidential victory for the Left. Further evidence that the South (of Ireland) is in an interregnum? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Political life in the Irish state has been transformed since 2008. Yet the ancien regime remains in situ. Drawing on Gramsci, this article traces the contours of the ongoing battle for hegemony in the Irish state.The South of Ireland during the interregnum - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Gramsci #Interregnum #Liberalism ‘...in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’. Despite a flourishing literature base, no systematic review of the interregnum has been undertaken. This paper acts to fill that lacuna…….https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13684310251367363

1930's or post-GFC?
"....A new set of ruling ideas superseded the world of the self-regulating market. To the stupefication of the vast majority of contemporaries, unsuspected forces of charismatic leadership and autarchist isolationism broke forth and fused societies in to new forms'.

The north of Ireland during the interregnum: a Gramscian analysis of power and crisis The North of Ireland was induced in to existence over a century ago, yet the polity lacked societal-wide legitimacy. The outbreak of conflict in 1968 signalled the beginning of an interregnal perio...

#Irishunity #irishfreedom
The gap between those who support Irish unity and those who support the union has narrowed to 6 points (data from the recently released 2024 NILTS poll). A fairly clear trend is developing...... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Irish general election of 2024: A battle lost before it was fought? Abstract. The 2024 Irish general election had shaped to be the most consequential in the history of the Irish state. Much was at stake, as the previous gen

#Irishelections #fiannafail #sinnfein #finegael The Irish general election of 2024: A battle lost before it was fought?

SF lost seats to the right and to the left in the recent Irish general election. Read the analysis here: doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

#Gramsci #Irishunity #Interregnum For those of you interested in Gramsci, the interregnum, the North of Ireland and Irish unity, I'm hoping that you might find that this is worth 15mins of your time!https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2158379X.2024.2426102

Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited - CHRIS Ó RÁLAIGH, 2025 It is now 40 years since the publication of Claus Offe's classical paper, Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State. Much change has occurred to the form ...

40 years after the publication of Claus Offe's seminal Some Contradications of the Welfare State, a recently published paper re-introduces and critiques the original and examines the contradictions of the contemporary welfare state. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...