This paper examines the influence of political culture upon constitutional reasoning and deliberation, specifically with regard to answering the question : why have socioeconomic rights not received a more effective ...
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 ...
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 ...
Meehan, Elizabeth M.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
Since the EU is relevant to the Good Friday Agreement as a whole, the paper starts by touching upon how it both facilitated the Agreement and, yet, also hindered Strand 2 (North-South relations). Strand 3 (the British-Irish ...
Fanning, Bryan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper emphasises how post-1950s Irish developmentalism fostered the economic,
social and political acceptance of large-scale immigration following EU enlargement
in 2004. It argues that economic imperatives alone ...
Jarman, Neil; Bell, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
In September 2008 the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) published the findings of a seventeen-month research study funded by the Community Relation’s Council
through the European Special Support Programme for Peace ...
Opening Address by Sir George Quigle.
Has Devolution Delivered a Shared Society in Northern Ireland by Tony Kennedy:
This paper will look at what has been achieved at the Government level and compare this with progress ...
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 ...
Byrne, Siobhan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
When we take the experiences of women seriously, the lessons that we can draw from the Northern Ireland peace process for future peace tracks in the Middle East
are not necessarily the same lessons that are highlighted ...