Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
State borders are typically held to shape categories of national identification. This
paper explores this interrelationship in the light of empirical evidence drawn from
research in the Irish border area. It begins by ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anderson, James(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper discusses some of the general problems of differentiating between the effects of state borders and the effects of related ethnonational identity differences, and particularly between the combined effects of ...
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 ...