Rankin, K. J.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
The circumstances concerning the partitioning of Ireland do not fit easily with patterns observed in other examples. The evolving bases of partition between 1912 and 1925 varied significantly with regard to geography, ...
O’Leary, Brendan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
Political partitions should be carefully distinguished from secessions, decolonisations and disengagements—though they may accompany these phenomena. Political partitions involve a fresh cut, an at least partially novel ...
O’Leary, Brendan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
Political partitions—fresh political borders cut through at least one community’s homeland—have been regularly commended to resolve national, ethnic and communal
conflicts. The strongest five political arguments in their ...
Partition is an intrinsically abstract and simplistic blunt instrument applied on a complex mosaic of peculiarities that constitute reality. There are very few modern states that are ethnically or culturally homogenous. ...
Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)
Although the partition of Ireland in 1921 was only one of several in which this strategy was adopted as Britain withdrew politically from territories formerly under its rule, it was marked by a number of distinctive features. ...
Howard, Kevin(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper offers a critique of MV Heslinga’s argument that the geographical structure of these islands has for millennia served to funnel interchange in an east-west direction, resulting in a deeply embedded cultural ...
This paper examines how the two parts of Ireland were affected by the partition of
the country in 1922. It examines the post-partition evolution of living standards north
and south, and patterns of trade, migration, and ...
Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)
The North-South bodies established in 1999 represent the third attempt since partition to establish a structured, formal basis for cooperation between the two parts of the island. This paper looks at the bodies from three ...
Howard, Kevin(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper revisits John Whyte’s seminal 1983 article “The permeability of the United Kingdom-Irish border: a preliminary reconnaissance” (Whyte, 1983). The objective
is to explore hypotheses Whyte put forward as to why ...
When individual statistics are aggregated through a strictly monotone function to an
aggregate statistic, common knowledge of the value of the aggregate statistic does not imply, in general, that the individual statistics ...