Acknowledgements
I am extremely grateful to my supervisor, Michael Curran, for his supportive mentorship and insightful contributions; Daniel Eliades, for his technical expertise in web-scraping; and the faculty of the Villanova Economics Department for their invaluable feedback. I would also like to express my sincerest gratitude to Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, and Scott Baker for the privilege of displaying my Irish EPU research on their website, www.PolicyUncertainty.com