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...could be facing a vacuum where Saint Patrick’s day becomes more than just national pride and collective spirit and instead runs the risk of being a parade that is focused on one type of Irish and not new and emerging types and communities within a nation that needs a diverse and skilled workforce to move forward at a time of great change and even greater instability....

...oral tradition, memorised, sung to music and spread by word of mouth alone. The ballad was an especially powerful form of expression in Irish culture, and from the middle of the eighteenth century or so, the ballad became a popular mode of political protest. It was often used to express nationalist aspirations as well as to tell traditional stories. What we have in ‘The...