Tannam, Etain(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)
This paper re-visits the theme of the reasons for economic co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and whether economic co-operation spills over to political co-operation. The article examines the ...
Guelke, Adrian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
The paper examines the impact of two major events in the international system on the peace process: the end of the Cold War and the attack on America on 11 September 2001. The thesis first advanced by Michael Cox that ...
The challenge of dealing with diversity within democracy and of creating a new
political culture in a divided society is the starting point of this paper. Using theories of recognition, these questions are examined in ...
A political perspective:
The idea of “northern” nationalism is a questionable one, since the nationalist tradition within Northern Ireland sees itself in an island-wide context. From its origins in the civil rights ...
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 ...
Millar, Adrian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the power of Lacanian theory to bring to light the unconscious dynamics at work in the formation of ethno-national political identities. I begin by identifying the need for a Lacanian ...
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 ...
The Northern Ireland conflict has traditionally been characterized as a sectarian conflict between two monolithic religious communities, Protestant and Catholic. As a result, little attention has been devoted to the social ...
Nic Craith, Máiréad(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The Good Friday agreement gave an impetus to interest in the issue of cultural di-versity in contemporary Northern Ireland, extending to the issue of smaller language groups, such as Irish and Ulster Scots. While these two ...
Cowan, Brian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The Good Friday Agreement represents in an important sense the triumph of politics over darker forces in Irish society. Rather than seeking to define the contours of a final settlement, it lays out the ground rules in ...