Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
The mechanisms of institutional change identified in comparative studies of
industrial policy and welfare state development are also to be found in processes of intergovernmental ethnic conflict regulation. This article ...
Europe’s traditional ethnic minorities and the conflicts over their place in the state and nation are the focus of continuing comparative research. In contrast, little attention is paid to Europe’s older religious conflicts, ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009-02-12)
This article explores the micro-level mechanisms that reproduce collective opposition. It uses a typology of identity change to compare individual narratives in two situations where there are strong incentives to change ...
McDermott, Susan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper analyses the relationship between the two main parties in the Irish party system when dealing with the Northern Ireland question. Taking the Sunningdale Communiqué as a starting point, the paper argues that while ...
Inglis, Tom(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
What importance does identity with place have in the ongoing construction and redevelopment of personal and social identities? This paper follows on from recent research which suggests that in an increasingly geographically ...
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 ...
McGrattan, Cillian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper examines Ulster unionism’s responses to and its increased disaffection from political developments in Northern Ireland since the 1990s. I suggest that
Ulster unionist politics and, by way of extrapolation, ...
Little attention has been paid in the recent scholarly literature to Europe's old religious conflicts - particularly those that stem from the Reformation. Yet for a long time religiously informed conflict was the principal ...