Tag: Northern Ireland
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The 1947 Education Act – a landmark in Northern Ireland’s history
Professor Graham Walker looks at the progressive yet controversial Education Act introduced in Northern Ireland in 1947 that increased educational opportunities across the whole community.
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Irish Unity Report: Reunification of Ireland or unity amongst those who want unity?
In the first of a two-part article, Professor John Barry casts a critical eye over the recent Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement report on Brexit and the Future of Ireland.
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Irish Unity Report: Reunification of Ireland or unity amongst those who want unity? Part 2
In the final part of his two-part article, Professor John Barry continues his review of the recent Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement report and asks whether the report is simply preaching to the converted when it comes to Irish unity.
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2017 – a review of the year so far!
Dr Katy Hayward shares her thoughts of the year so far on Slugger TV.
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How does the lack of agreement in Northern Ireland bode for Brexit?
“Any future bespoke arrangements for post-Brexit Northern Ireland will need to include models that work both at the high level of governance and at the ground level of technical application.”
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Competing with the Past: The Struggle for Truth in Northern Ireland
Dr Cheryl Lawther discusses Northern Ireland’s past and ways to move forward.
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A hard Irish border is quite possible, a frictionless one is an oxymoron
The prospects for frictionless and invisible solutions for the Irish border after Brexit are limited. Dr Katy Hayward outlines a practical summary of the difference that would be made by a hard Brexit to the movement of goods across the Irish border.
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Putting a price on language: the debate around the cost of an Irish language act
In the second of two articles, Deirdre Dunlevy and Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín look at the cost implications associated with the debate around an Irish language act for Northern Ireland.
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Northern Ireland’s complexity is its strength
Brexit negotiations make it a testbed for the EU’s flexibility and the UK’s resilience and a renewal of the multilayered 1998 Agreement is the best way forward says Dr Katy Hayward.
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The 2017 Westminster election in Northern Ireland: towards two-party politics?
With the continued decline of the UUP and SDLP, Dr Chris Raymond looks at whether it is premature to say that two-party politics have come to stay in Northern Ireland.