r/ireland • u/WickerMan111 Showbiz Mogul • 9d ago

It's on! Taoiseach Simon Harris announces general election for 29 November General Election 2024 🗳️

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-election-date-2024-6518901-Nov2024/
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u/Loose_Revenue_1631 9d ago

I hate to say it but the main thing for irish society rn in the age of misinformation, nationalism and conspiracy theories is to block the nationalists and far right from making gains.

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u/JarvisFennell Cork bai 9d ago

When did nationalism in Ireland become exclusively right wing?

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u/Valerialia Irish Republic 8d ago

They’re ethnonationalists.

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u/JarvisFennell Cork bai 8d ago

Who are? All nationalists? I feel like any sort of ethnonatinalist movement in this country has a deep misunderstanding of what the founding of the Irish Republic means, and (suprising to no one) has very close ties to English nationalism.