For this blog post I decided to use a text analysis tool to compare what politicians say when dealing with Irish sovereignty. I decided to look at all the Dail debates on the treaty as well as a selection of Dail excerpts from leading politicians from November 2010.

The reason I have chosen November is I believe it is a very dark month in our history where calamity and confusion are the order of the day. The Fine Fail led coalition government have led this country to a collapse where our fought Independence has been sold out.

I am first going to analyze the three Dail debates and see what common words are used. I will then compare this to what modern day politicians are saying in relation to the crisis that is currently occurring,

From the Dail debate from

14 December



19 December;



7 January




Looking at the three debates together one can get a picture of what issues are being raised. "Irish People and the Republic are the most common themes being argued in the debates.

Now we turn our attention to the modern era and see how people are commenting on the current economic crisis.

The first account is from a speech made by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen regarding financial stability.




The next item is taken from the a blog post entitled ' Irelands last day of independence'





As is clear when looking at the different examples the majority of the speeches are dominated by 'ireland' republic. people. It is fair comment for the modern day journalist to see this handing over of out fiscal independence to the IMF as a handing over of our total independence.