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Biden Loves Ireland. It Doesn’t Love Him Back.

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If there’s one thing Irish people know about President Biden, it’s that he’s one of us. He says so all the time. “Remember”, he recalls his grandfather saying, “the best drop of blood in you is Irish”. He has a habit of quoting the poet Seamus Heaney and never lets an opportunity to recall his origins go to waste. His Secret Service code name, tellingly, is Celtic.

So when he visited Ireland last year, it felt like a homecoming. “Today you are amongst friends because you are one of us”, the speaker of Parliament announced before Mr. Biden addressed Irish lawmakers.…  Seguir leyendo »

The shell of a burned tram in downtown Dublin, the day after the riots. Brian Lawless/Press Association, via Associated Press

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A little after 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, a man stabbed three children and a woman outside a primary school in downtown Dublin. The woman and one of the children, a 5-year-old girl, were seriously injured. The suspect — who was injured while being subdued, and has yet to be interviewed — is originally from Algeria, a naturalized Irish citizen who has been here for two decades. The motive for the attack is still unclear.

Messages speculating about the man’s nationality quickly started to circulate on the social platforms X and Telegram. Other messages called for people to descend on the city center.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘Ireland’s modern dismay is at rampant inequality.’ Graffiti by the Irish artist ADW on construction hoardings behind the Bernard Shaw pub in Dublin, September 2019. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

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There’s a reason that “Was it for this?” remains one of WB Yeats’s most recited fragments of poetry in Ireland. The line comes from Yeats’s September 1913, which poured scorn on how the greed and hypocrisies of the business class had replaced the romanticism of previous Irish generations.

Ireland’s modern dismay, however, is at rampant and growing inequality, and the way in which its cities and cultural spaces are being hollowed out by speculation, gentrification, poor or absent planning and squandered opportunities.

After five years of what could justifiably be called social revolution in Ireland, the cliche is that the country responded uniquely to the crippling austerity that followed the 2008 financial crash, not with anti-immigrant populism but with progressive politics.…  Seguir leyendo »