With Sinn Fein riding high in the polls, are we looking at an upset? Is this a populist upsurge in Ireland, finally, more than a decade after the start of the crisis? We discuss what Ireland's 'end of history' was like and how the 'Celtic Tiger' economy sustained it; and look at how the country was the EU's "model prisoner" of austerity. Are there new stirrings? And what are the prospects for unification?Readings:
Mary Lou McDonald could take Sinn Féin into the political mainstream, Jason Walsh, The New European
This Month’s Elections in Ireland Are a Historic Opportunity, Michael Taft, Jacobin
The End of Irish History, Colin Coulter et al., Manchester UP (Edited book; pdf)
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