Ireland North-South Project

DCU RESEARCH

See new website on our research at www.dcu.ie/conflict-institute

The Future of the Island of Ireland

  • The Northern Ireland Subvention
    Doyle, John. “Why the ‘Subvention’ Does Not Matter: Northern Ireland and the All-Ireland Economy.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 314–334, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.30. [Open Access]
  • Citizens’ Assemblies and the Debate on the Political Future
    Suiter, Jane. “A Modest Proposal: Building a Deliberative System in Northern Ireland.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 247–270, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.23. [Open Access]
  • Academic Selection and its impacts in Northern Ireland
    Brown, Martin, et al. “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Academic Selection: The Case Of Northern Ireland.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 32, no. 2, 2021, pp. 477–498, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/isia.2021.32b.38. [Open Access]
  • Design of Political Institutions for a United Ireland
    Kapic, Tajma. “The Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lessons for the Design of Political Institutions for a United Ireland.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 33 no. 2, 2022, p. 1-26. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/isia.2022.0001 [Open Access]
  • Drivers and Barriers of Cross-Border Ecosystems
    van Egeraat, Chris & Curran Declan. “Drivers and Barriers of Cross-Border Ecosystems: The Pharmaceutical Sector”  Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 33 no. 2, 2021, pp.627-651. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2021.0064. [Open Access]
  • Policing in a United Ireland
    [This was Vicky Conway’s last published journal article before her untimely death.  Much missed by her colleagues]
    Conway, Vicky. “Policing in a United Ireland: The Intractable Questions of Governance, Oversight and Accountability.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 33 no. 2, 2022, p. 71-100. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/isia.2022.0006. [Open Access]
  • Understanding Language Rights 
    Costello, Róisín Á. “‘To Be British, Irish, or Both’: Understanding Language Rights as a Tool for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 33 no. 2, 2022, p. 172-200. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/isia.2022.0009. [Open Access]
  • Representations in Film 
    Brereton, Pat. “Troubles and Northern Ireland: Representations in Film of Belfast as a Site of Conflict.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 33 no. 2, 2022, p. 292-306. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/isia.2022.0014. [Open Access]

Brexit & Northern Ireland

The DCU Brexit Institute operates as a hub and a magnet for the analysis of Brexit, both from an academic and a policy perspective. Through the organization of regular events, the Brexit Institute provides a leading platform to document and debate developments in the relations between the UK and the EU.

History & Context:

Cover for a book called From Partition to Brexit

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.  It brings together researchers, north and south in Ireland, including this project in DCU and also internationally, to provide authoritative, independent and non-partisan analysis and research on constitutional, institutional and policy options for Ireland, north and south in a post-Brexit context.

ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South (Royal Irish Academy & Notre Dame (USA) project on research, launched in January 2021)

Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland, The Constitution Unit, University College London
University College London Working Group A project examining how any future referendum on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would be best designed and conducted