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Tag: USA

  • Campaigning in a crisis – the race for the US Presidency

    Campaigning in a crisis – the race for the US Presidency

    How do you campaign when you can’t campaign? In the UK the scheduled May elections were delayed for a year but in the US there is the Presidential and other elections in November and, more trickily a series of primary contests to select candidates. Primaries (and caucuses) select delegates according to candidate.  The delegates then […]

    April 15, 2020
  • Here’s why St Patrick’s day and ‘the craic’ are two of Ireland’s greatest myths

    Here’s why St Patrick’s day and ‘the craic’ are two of Ireland’s greatest myths

    Paddy Hoey, Edge Hill University and David Shaw, University of Liverpool There are two world famous symbols of Irish culture: St Patrick’s day, and the Irish pub – both synonymous with drinking and “good craic”. But history tells us that these icons of Irish identity were first conceived far away from Ireland. Since then, these […]

    March 17, 2016

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