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Did (and Does) the Irish Border Matter? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 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 road and rail traffic between the two since 1922.
Ó Gráda, Cormac, Walsh, Brendan M.
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Brexit and the Irish border [PDF]
, 2019 The question of the Irish land border was the most problematic aspect of the negotiations on the United Kingdom's (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The Irish border aspects of the Brexit negotiations have demonstrated that the border and the maintenance of the Good Friday Agreement is not just an issue for British-Irish relations, but one ...
Connolly, Eileen, Doyle, John
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Women Rebranding Sinn Féin (2018-2022)
Textes & Contextes, 2023 In 1998, the Belfast Agreement put an official end to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Twenty years later, a new era began for the Irish republican movement.
Élodie Gallet
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Where Does the Buck Stop with the Backstop? The Irish-UK Border in Brexit Negotiations: June 2016-January 2019 [PDF]
Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2020 The abject failure of British Prime Minister Theresa May to get the United Kingdom’s (UK) Withdrawal Agreement from the European Union (EU) through Parliament on 15 January 2019, with MPs overwhelmingly rejecting it by 432 votes to 202, has been put down
Paul McNamara
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The Threat of Increased Violence in the Northern Ireland in the Context of Brexit [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2019 The paper considers the increasing instability in Northern Ireland and the possible aggravation of violent confrontation between Republicans and Unionists in the region due to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Liudmila Babynina
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Ulster versus Éire: Border Narratives in Cinema Newsreels
Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023 Ulster versus Éire (1938) was an American March of Time newsreel exploring the complexities of Irish politics on both sides of the border. It came hot on the heels of an earlier film made by the same company, misleadingly titled Irish Republic (1937 ...
Ciara Chambers
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 The Irish border proved one of the most difficult issues in the negotiations on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. A persistent point of contention since the partition of Ireland a hundred years ago, it had been put into abeyance by a combination of the historic Common Travel Area, the peace settlement in Northern Ireland and the ...
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The Irish border as sign and source of British-Irish tensions [PDF]
, 2021 The Government of Ireland Act, 1920 partitioned Ireland along a line set to ensure a stable Protestant majority in the small northern state. However, neither stability nor security were achieved by this act, in any social, political or economic sense. This chapter gives an overview of the practical and symbolic significance of the border, the impact of
Hayward, Katy +2 more
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Staging Body Politics in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters (1986) and Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa (1990) [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 The present paper examines Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters (1986) and Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa (1990) within the paradigm of Performance Studies to dramatize an emotional rapture in an exasperated choreographic show.
Marwa Alkhayat
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Glocal Borders in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021)
Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023 Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film Belfast (2021) tells the story of a young boy, Buddy, growing up in Belfast in the sectarian border zones that internally fissured the state of Northern Ireland. This article suggests that the movie’s critical
Kirsten Sandrock
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