This paper is based on a set of case studies of cross-border co-operation, and focuses
in particular on four of these: youth training, health, economic development
and electricity generation. While each sector raises ...
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 ...
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 provides a brief outline of the findings of the much larger mapping study
of funding support for cross-border cooperation which is based on Border Ireland
and has been written as part of the wider Mapping ...
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 ...
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. ...
Kennedy, Michael(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
From 1942 to 1957 North and South co-operated to enable the Irish Electricity Supply Board to build the most effective power plant possible on the River Erne in southern territory by ensuring that, through dredging 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 ...
Bradley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper examines economic progress in the island of Ireland in the context of its modern history, but with particular emphasis on the post cease-fire and post Belfast Agreement period, inquiring whether or not policy ...
Bradley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper follows from another study, which showed that the industrial structures in the Republic and Northern Ireland are very different—the former with a cluster of modern high technology sectors, the latter retaining ...