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.
There will be speculation about whether the Taoiseach can emerge unscathed from his second Oval Office encounter with Donald Trump, along with the customary reminder that the whole green-tinted extravaganza is a soft power opportunity that other countries can only envy.
That opportunity exists because of the historic connection between Ireland and its diaspora in the United States. What will be less remarked upon is how that relationship is changing, and how much of what each side now knows about the other is mediated through wildly divergent information ecosystems.
The claim that almost 40 million US citizens are of Irish ethnicity was always an overreach; only a small fraction of that number have any real sense of connec
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