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All Politics Is Local

Especially in Ireland!

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Two central truisms of politics everywhere are especially true in General Election ’24 thus far: The first is that “all politics is local.” This maxim, often attributed to former US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tip O’Neill, a fine Irish-American machine politician that he was signals that re-election to the national legislature has far more …

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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. Canadian party politics, political culture, Irish politics, and the political thought of Jonathan Swift.
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