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These are heady days for advocates of social justice in the Republic of Ireland. The country appears to be on the brink of implementing – at last – hate crime legislation. From across the ocean, I will admit to being surprised to learn not too long ago that the Republic of Ireland was alone among European nations in its lack of such statutory provisions. For a country with such a long and bloody history of violence motivated by difference, it came as a revelation that it had not joined the queue of other nations that had developed hate crime laws in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Perry, B. (2017). Legislating Hate in Ireland: The View from Here. In: Haynes, A., Schweppe, J., Taylor, S. (eds) Critical Perspectives on Hate Crime. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52667-0_4
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