Tag: Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
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Rory O’Connell: The Johnson Letter and Cross-community Agreement in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is the part of these islands likely to be most affected by Brexit. As Parliament is currently debating the Government’s proposed new approach to the EU, issues about Northern Ireland require detailed consideration, especially in light of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement. Bearing in mind the Agreement, the political and constitutional implications…
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Colin Murray: Brexit and the “Constitutional Integrity” of the United Kingdom
Something no Prime Minister could contemplate The Foreign Office records regarding the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 must be amongst the most regularly requested papers held at the National Archives. One file, FO 608/65, is part of the herculean effort to redraw the map of Europe after the First World War. It recounts the efforts…
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Ruth Keating: Rigorous Impartiality and a Coalition of Chaos
“What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power.” Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster Unionists during the Home Rule crisis, 1921 Amongst Theresa May’s list of growing concerns is a potential landmark…