Coakley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010-03-12)
This paper looks at the concept of consociational government (or the principle of fully-fledged power sharing) as it has evolved in recent comparative studies of the politics of divided societies. It describes the stages ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
Irish accounts of the demise of protectionist thinking in the late 1950s and early 1960s emphasise the importance of the disastrous economic performance of the
1950s and the policy learning that it engendered. Other small ...
Kennaway, Brian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)
This paper looks at the broad history of Orangeism and Unionism from the beginning
of the Orange tradition at the end of the seventeenth century, to the present
issues facing us today at the beginning of the twenty-first ...
Buckley, Anthony D.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)
Ulster Protestant attitudes to, for example, history, religion or territory, have been
portrayed by scholars as full of animosity towards Catholics. In fact, Protestant culture, like any other, is enabling, giving people ...
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 ...
McDermott, Susan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper analyses the relationship between the two main parties in the Irish party system when dealing with the Northern Ireland question. Taking the Sunningdale Communiqué as a starting point, the paper argues that while ...
This paper examines the impact of the Belfast Agreement on north-south economic
cooperation in Ireland, using the tourism industry as a case study. The first part of
the paper sets out the suggested benefits that may ...
National identity is symbolically complex configuration, with shifts of emphasis and reprioritisations of content negotiated in contexts of power. This paper shows how they occur in one post conflict situation – Northern ...
Stevenson, Clifford(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)
The sectarian geography of Northern Ireland, whereby the majority of the population
live in areas predominated by one religion or the other, is typically assumed to
straightforwardly reflect the territorial identities ...
Feldman, Alice(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper explores the challenges posed by the ethnic diversification of contemporary Irish society for conventional understandings of and responses to issues of religion, community and politics. It argues that the ...
Meehan, Elizabeth M.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper considers the impact of borders on employment opportunities or barriers on the island of Ireland. In that context, it is about several senses of “border”: the creation of two borders on the independence of ...
The Irish experience of public service reform provides a unique case study of institutional change and resilience, and offers new perspectives on public service reform in “Anglo-Saxon” administrative systems. The data used ...
Reid, John; Dorr, Noel(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
One of the lessons to be drawn from the history of Northern Ireland is the need for unionists to be involved in the peace process: unionist opponents of the agreement, however sincere, are only undermining the long term ...
Strand one negotiations:
The Good Friday Agreement was the culmination of almost two years of multi-party negotiations designed to resolve difficult relationships between the two main communities within Northern Ireland, ...
Mitchell, Claire(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003-05)
It is a common misconception that religion in Northern Ireland is politically important only for Protestants, whereas for Catholics the causes of conflict are social, economic and political. Despite very high levels of ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper argues that until the early twenty-first century the Northern Ireland conflict retained an unstable triangular form (the legacy of the long-past colonial period), where the British state was inextricably imbricated ...