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The Last Hurrah

UCD Clinton Institute

25 episodes

8 months ago

Over the last ten episodes of The Last Hurrah, Liam and Scott have spoken to a wide range of journalists, activists, politicians and academics with differing viewpoints on the past, present and future of Irish America. In the final episode of the season, Liam and Scott discuss the key takeaways from their conversations and delve into the unique insights given by our guests. They also ask what it means to be Irish American in 2021 and discuss how this special relationship has developed in the ...

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Over the last ten episodes of The Last Hurrah, Liam and Scott have spoken to a wide range of journalists, activists, politicians and academics with differing viewpoints on the past, present and future of Irish America. In the final episode of the season, Liam and Scott discuss the key takeaways from their conversations and delve into the unique insights given by our guests. They also ask what it means to be Irish American in 2021 and discuss how this special relationship has developed in the ...

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Episodes (20/25)

The Last Hurrah

Looking back on The Last Hurrah

Over the last ten episodes of The Last Hurrah, Liam and Scott have spoken to a wide range of journalists, activists, politicians and academics with differing viewpoints on the past, present and future of Irish America. In the final episode of the season, Liam and Scott discuss the key takeaways from their conversations and delve into the unique insights given by our guests. They also ask what it means to be Irish American in 2021 and discuss how this special relationship has developed in the ...

4 years ago

29 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Marion McKeone: A clear-eyed view on the future of Irish America

Marion McKeone is the US correspondent for the Sunday Business Post. Before that, from 2000-2009, she was the US editor for the Sunday Tribune. She has also written for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Irish Times. She broadcasts a regular US slot on Today FM’s ’The Last Word’ and is a regular contributor to RTE Current Affairs programs discussing US politics, foreign policy, and major news events. Marion has covered all of the major political events in the United States from 9-11 to...

4 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Shipping Up to Boston

Kevin Cullen is an author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He has written for the Boston Globe since 1985 where he served as local, national and foreign correspondent before becoming a columnist. Kevin spent more than 20 years covering the conflict in Northern Ireland and in 1994 was honoured by the Overseas Press Club of America for his interpretive reporting from Northern Ireland. In 1997, Kevin was appointed the Boston Globe’s Dublin bureau chief, covering the peace process in North...

4 years ago

46 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Shenanigans: The US-Ireland Relationship in Uncertain Times

Trina Vargo is the president of the US-Ireland Alliance. She was employed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and served as his foreign policy adviser during the critical years of the Northern Ireland peace process. Working directly with political leaders in Northern Ireland, the Clinton Administration, and the Irish Government, Vargo served as a key behind-the-scenes player in the Northern Ireland peace process, including the granting of a visa for Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to visit the US in 19...

4 years ago

47 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Ted Smyth: The Irish Diplomat

Ted Smyth has had distinguished careers in government and public affairs in Ireland and the United States. He was an Irish diplomat from 1972 to 1988 serving in Portugal, Switzerland, the US, and the UK. He participated in the Northern Ireland peace process, serving in the Department of the Taoiseach as Deputy Director of Government Information Services, advisor on Northern Ireland, and in the Secretariat of the New Ireland Forum. He was head of Press and Information in the US from 1976-1981 ...

4 years ago

36 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Joan Walsh: What’s the Matter with White People?

Joan Walsh is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and a CNN political contributor. She is also the author of What’s the Matter With White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America, which the Philadelphia Daily News called “one of the best books of 2012 – and even more relevant now.” In the book she “charts growing political divisions in the US through the story of her extended working-class New York, Irish Catholic family”. The book is “a family and political memoir that maps th...

4 years ago

43 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Unintended Consequences: The Story of Irish Immigration to the US Since 1965

Ray O'Hanlon was born in Dublin, is a graduate of University College Dublin, and worked with the Irish Press newspaper group before moving to the United States in 1987. O’Hanlon’s particular beat has long been the immigration issue and his 1998 book, The New Irish Americans, is considered a definitive account of the battle for immigration reform waged by the Irish Immigration Reform Movement and other Irish-American organizations in the late 1980s and early ’90s. His new book, Unintended Cons...

4 years ago

38 minutes

The Last Hurrah

From Democrats to Divided Loyalties: Irish American Politics 1930s to the 1990s

Timothy Meagher is a former Associate Professor, Curator of American Catholic History, and University Archivist at The Catholic University of America. Meagher is an expert on Irish American history. His publications on the topic include Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class and Ethnic Identity in a New England City 1880 to 1928 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), winner of the James Donnelly Prize for the best book in Irish and Irish American history, and The Columbia Guide to Irish ...

4 years ago

43 minutes

The Last Hurrah

James R. Barrett: The Irish Way

James R. Barrett is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently scholar in residence at The Newberry Library. Professor Barrett’s research interests include immigration and race and ethnicity in US cities. He is also the author of “The Irish Way”, a book of “social history” that examines “how the Irish took up positions of urban leadership in the late 19th century” and “how they had to adapt to growing numbers of other immigrants in the early 20th cent...

4 years ago

38 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Joe Crowley: The Last of the Irish Bosses in Queens

Former Congressman Joe Crowley of New York is “simply one of the most significant Irish American politicians of his generation.” After growing up in an Irish household in Queens, Crowley’s political career began in the New York State Assembly in 1987. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1999 and, from 2017 to 2019, he served as Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the fourth most powerful position in the House Democratic Party. A member of the Friends of Ireland Caucu...

4 years ago

37 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Introducing the Last Hurrah

Irish Americans have had a profound impact in shaping urban and national politics in the US since the late nineteenth century. It is a power and presence that has declined in recent generations – there is no longer a recognisably Irish voting block - but it has not simply disappeared. The Last Hurrah will consider the evolution of Irish America’s political culture into the present – and the election of Joe Biden – and speculate on its future. It is a production of the UCD Clinton Inst...

4 years ago

11 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Season Two Finale: Capitol Chaos in Washington

It didn't take long for political drama to unfold in 2021. Less than a week into the new year, a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the US Capitol. The bloody act against the ultimate symbol of American democracy was incited by the current resident of the White House and has led to Donald Trump's banishment from social media platforms and calls for him to resign with less than two weeks to go in his term. In the final episode of our second season, Liam and Scott unpack the events of Jan...

4 years ago

26 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Women & American Politics in 2020

American women have turned out at higher rates than men in every U.S. presidential election dating back to 1984. That's according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center. But what are the issues driving women to the polls this year? Will the gender gap, discrimination, Trump administration's policies on women's health and especially his continued sexist remarks on women affect the outcome? Have women in America had enough? Professor Melissa Deckman, Professor She...

5 years ago

23 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Eyes on the Democrats: Cautious Optimism, Nervousness & Fears of 2000 Redux

Despite Joe Biden's double digit national lead and a string of new polls showing him ahead in crucial swing states, many Democrats are still feeling nervous about the outcome of this year's presidential election. They are haunted by ghosts of elections past. Namely, the 2000 race between Al Gore and George Bush when the fate of the election wasn't determined at the ballot box but within the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States. To get a better sense of what is on the mi...

5 years ago

29 minutes

The Last Hurrah

The One Where President Trump Didn't Let Coronavirus "Dominate" Him

In a week that saw the President and the First Lady of the United States diagnosed with Covid-19, the American public tried to decipher the mixed messages coming from the White House. During this campaign’s first October surprise, the President, while infected, took a trip outside Walter Reed Hospital to wave to supporters, putting the lives of American citizens at risk. After three days in hospital the President was flown back to the White House where he told the public “don’t be afraid” and...

5 years ago

28 minutes

The Last Hurrah

An "Unpresidential" Debate & The View from Washington with Dan Lippman

It was a presidential debate like none other, characterized not by an exchange of ideas or inspirational rhetoric, but by petty barbs and relentless interruptions. The public learned little about the candidate’s policy platforms, as questions of public health and the economy were largely left unanswered and the President fanned the flames of racial animosity. Civility and decorum were overpowered by insult and lies. What was made clear by this debate -- if it can be called that --...

5 years ago

21 minutes

The Last Hurrah

2020: The Most Important American Election Ever?

This November, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will compete for the White House in what many believe is the most consequential election in modern U.S. history. Trump infamously vowed to put an end to American "carnage" in his inaugural address. Four years on, "carnage" seems to be an apt description of what is transpiring in America as it grapples with a raging pandemic and racial and social unrest. It seems Donald Trump was merely making a prophetic reference to the America he would create as p...

5 years ago

30 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Season Finale: The International Resonance & Legacy of the American Civil Rights Movement

In this season finale, Scott and Liam take stock of the biggest political trends facing the United States as it continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic and prepares for a historic presidential elections in November. Liam also chats with Kevin Gaines, the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia, about the international resonance of the civil rights movement in America at a time of renewed global push for racial and social justice.

5 years ago

36 minutes

The Last Hurrah

No Longer A Shining City on the Hill?

As America continues to grapple with a deadly coronavirus pandemic, Scott and Liam discuss all the latest political drama gripping Washington. Scott also discusses the declining image of America as a redemptive power inspiring people around the world with writer, activist and storyteller Tori Egherman. They chat about identity, race and Tori's experiences living in Iran.

5 years ago

33 minutes

The Last Hurrah

Special Edition: A Very Different Fourth of July

Fourth of July, when America declared independence from Britain in 1776, is an annual celebration synonymous with big public displays of patriotism, parades, outdoor barbecues, fireworks and family gatherings. But this year, things are different. America is convulsed by disease, rocked by protest against racism and consumed by a presidential race wherein the incumbent occupant of the White House has seemingly ceded any national leadership role in favour of appeasing his base. Then there...

5 years ago

30 minutes