Spicebags, slippery masks and 'Free Staters': anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse.
This article critically interrogates how in contemporary Irish political discourse anti-populism, specifically anti-left populism, is articulated as a form of anti-republicanism. This is large part due to the histories of anti-colonial republicanism in Ireland and the popular republican grammar they...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 685 - 703 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=189062450&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 189062450 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17405904 RF5 jtl: Critical Discourse Studies issn: 17405904 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2025 vid: 22 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 189062450 10.1080/17405904.2024.2400884 ppf: 685 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 419KB tig: atl: Spicebags, slippery masks and 'Free Staters': anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse. aug: au: Hussey, Gary Farrell, Liam affil: School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Independent Scholar, Manchester, UK su: Populism Republicanism Postcolonialism Paramilitary forces Rhetoric & politics Sinn Féin Political campaigns Ireland sug: subj: Ireland Populism Republicanism Postcolonialism Paramilitary forces Rhetoric & politics Sinn Féin Political campaigns keyword: anti-populism anti-republicanism dangerous memory Irish republicanism postcoloniality ab: This article critically interrogates how in contemporary Irish political discourse anti-populism, specifically anti-left populism, is articulated as a form of anti-republicanism. This is large part due to the histories of anti-colonial republicanism in Ireland and the popular republican grammar they have bequeathed to contemporary political discourse. This thematic of (anti)populist politics is of renewed interest and urgency given the recent surge in popularity of Sinn Féin, a broadly left-wing republican populist party. This article adopts a discourse analytical method and identifies several key tropes of anti-republican anti-populism that centre largely around the framing of Sinn Féin as a non-normative or not-normal political party, given its historical connection to paramilitarism. Other key themes of anti-republican anti-populism include the politics of housing, policing and the nature of democratic representation. What emerges is a picture of Irish republicanism as a spectral remainder of past political struggles against colonial order and political exclusion. As such, republican politics bring into view the contingency of established order and reveals the fragile nature of political legitimacy in post-partition Ireland. This article concludes by commenting on what the Irish postcolony reveals about the nature of anti-populisms in Europe and its peripheries. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Critical Discourse Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Critical Discourse Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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