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. ...
Howard, Kevin(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper proposes a diaspora framework as a useful way of conceptualizing the
relationship between the kin-state and northern Irish nationalists. The formation of
diasporas is generally understood as being a consequence ...
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 ...
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This paper looks at the how individuals reconstruct their way of being ...
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 gave an opportunity to remake not just political institutions but ethno-religious distinction in Northern Ireland. This paper looks at the how individuals reconstruct their way of being ...
McLoughlin, P. J.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2007)
This paper examines the roles played by the Irish government and more particularly
Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in both the making
and the breakdown of the 1973 Sunningdale agreement. It ...
Garvin, Tom(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
Dublin journalism was well served by three national newspapers and a coterie of
weeklies and irregular publications during the period 1948-1962. In this paper, the
different 'takes' on the perceived crisis in the Irish ...
Pollak, Andy(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
Cooperation and exchanges across the Irish border between schools, teachers and
youth groups have seen an extraordinary growth in the past decade, involving
nearly 20% of all schools on the island of Ireland in 2000. ...
Murray, Peter(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
The role of Patrick Cannon as a developmentalist critic of the educational status quo at the beginning of the 1960s is highlighted by Tom Garvin in Preventing the
Future. Here the organisation the Headmaster of Sandymount ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
One position on the regulation of ethnic conflict assumes that such conflict is in part driven by popular perceptions of ethnic injustice and can be regulated by enforcement of ethnic equality. Critics argue that such ...
O'Connor, Tim(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)
This paper sets out the background to the new North-South institutional architecture contained in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement—the negotiations themselves and the outcome. Given that much of the detail remained to be ...
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 ...
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. ...
This article maps some of the effects when ethnicity and religion overlap. Sometimes one category, with its related values and solidarity, is prioritised; this is expressed in the common view that religion is subsumed in ...
This paper explores the feasibility and plausibility of the emergence of an Irish-British form of identification. We examine the possibility of such a hyphenated identity category in the context of those who consider ...
This paper examines the everyday lives of Northern Irish evangelicals since the Belfast Agreement of 1998. Drawing on more than 100 semi-structured interviews with evangelicals (conducted between 2002-2007), we explore the ...
Brownlow, Graham(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper is concerned with the institutions of Irish economics; it is structured around two arguments each of which links to the thesis presented in Garvin’s Preventing the future (2004). Overall it will be demonstrated ...