REDEFINING UNIONISM : A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
The main unionist political demand in the years immediately after 1972 was for the return of the Northern Ireland parliament based on the principle of majority rule. ...
O'Malley, Des; Garvin, Tom(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
A political perspective:
Southern Irish nationalism was traditionally aggressive and negative, and tended to view Northern Ireland as a colonial remnant; but economic protectionism and isolationism did little to stem the ...
De Chastelain, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
This paper examines the impact that the decommissioning of paramilitary arms has had, and continues to have, on the Northern Ireland peace process. It selects the beginning of the paramilitary group ceasefires in 1994 as ...
Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The agreement reached between the British and Irish governments and the Northern Irish political parties in April 1998 was a complex and subtle political document that built on experience in other societies and that itself ...
CROSS-BORDER BODIES AND THE NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONSHIP : LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
The new North-South institutions established under the Good Friday agreement need to be seen in both historical and contemporary political ...
Using survey data for 220 traditional manufacturing firms over 7 years of transition and 4 Central Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, we find firms that produced for the EU market under planning
consistently outperform those ...
This paper estimates a simple model of exchange rate policy where the Central Bank
optimises an objective function which takes into account competitiveness, its
commitment to the EMU and the cost of adjustment. We allow ...
Using a dataset that allows consistent cross-country comparisons the non-linearity in a conventional earnings equation is tested with respect to schooling. The findings suggest that the assumption of linearity is not robust ...
Both thromboxane (TX) A2 and 8-epi prostaglandin (PG) F2alpha have been reported to stimulate mitogenesis of vascular smooth muscle (SM) in a number of species. However, TXA2 and 8-epiPGF2alpha mediated mitogenic signalling ...