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Borders of the Future: Brexit and Bordering Ireland

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If nobody wants a return to the borders of the past, then what will the borders of the future look like asks Professor Cathal McCall.

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How Northern Ireland voted in the EU referendum – and what it means for border talks

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As the UK seeks to negotiate its way out of the EU, one particularly thorny problem will be the nature of the border the UK will have with the EU, and specifically how this will affect Northern Ireland and Ireland.

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Hard Brexit – perspectives for the island of Ireland?

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In the event of a hard Brexit, Professor Dagmar Schiek looks at some of the areas where the withdrawal of the UK from the EU will impact on life on the island of Ireland.

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The spectre of a hard border is not just an Irish problem, it looms across Europe

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Following the recent referendum on UK membership of the EU, negotiators aim to avoid a new “hard border” between Northern Ireland and Ireland. However, as Dr Katy Hayward suggests, their efforts will inevitably be shaped by a wider trend that has seen a tightening of border security around and within the EU.

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A Terrible Beauty is Born – Yeats and “Easter 1916”

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In the most famous piece of writing about the Rising, Easter 1916, WB Yeats famously revised his earlier critical opinions of Ireland. But, asks Professor Fran Brearton, was he also responding to Rudyard Kipling’s pro-unionist poem, Ulster 1912?

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Irish Civil War politics are dead and gone; they’re with De Valera, MacBride and Mulcahy in the grave

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With the Irish general election having thrown up the prospect of a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition, Dr Marie Coleman examines the historical background to the divisions between the two parties and argues that Civil War politics disappeared long before 2016.

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Parties, Polls and Predictions: Who will win the Irish General Election?

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The forthcoming Irish General Election is shaping up to be one of the most contested in living memory, with a greater number of parties and policies competing for public attention and votes, and presenting multiple coalition options. This free open symposium in QUB brings together some of Ireland’s most prominent political scientists to discuss their predictions for the election and the likely shape of the next government.

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Election 2016 could be the real ‘earthquake’ Irish election

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In the first of a series of QPol articles on Ireland’s Election 2016, Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh looks at the changing political landscape in Ireland and highlights some of the policy challenges the new government will face.

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