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Neil Matthews

@ntmatthews.bsky.social

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Politics lecturer, University of Bristol. Belfast-raised.

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 20/03/2025

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"

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Mark Coughlan @markcoughlan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Election heads, get your nerd on. Irishelection.com 2.0 at this link. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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.

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