Over the next week, Irish media coverage will ramp up in advance of Micheál Martin’s trip to Washington, DC for St Patrick’s Day. For progressive younger Irish Americans, Irishness offers an attractively anti-imperialist, postcolonial colouring that can differentiate their whiteness from a generic American blandness. That is not the perspective that dominates in most places where Irish Americans live. The institutional infrastructure that once connected Irish and American political elites along recognisable lines is ageing out and quietly dismantling itself. Listen to Hugh Linehan’s interview with Liam Kennedy on The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast

Source: The Irish Times March 10, 2026 16:30 UTC