New digital resource aims to provide space for the debate about Ireland s constitutional future University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies new online resource 06 March, 2021 01:00
University of Liverpool s Professor Peter Shirlow
A new online resource aims to provide space for debate about Ireland s constitutional future.
The initiative from University of Liverpool s Institute of Irish Studies has support from parties across the spectrum and will seek to reflect both pro-unity and pro-union voices.
The platform has been developed by the institute s director, Professor Peter Shirlow, in conjunction with inter-community initiative Civic Space, and features multimedia, comment and discussion from the public as well as leaders and influencers, including Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald and Stormont health minister Robin Swann.
Interdependence is the antidote to Northern Irish politics A policy of enhanced all-island relationships will build economic, cultural and political opportunity
Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 01:00 Peter Shirlow
The furthering of linkages between North and South through culture, environment and tourism can raise the levels of mutual dependence and assist in the avoidance of conflict. Photograph: iStock
Debate on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland is often presented as binary: the options given are the status quo or a Border poll, with the implication that the latter will, sooner or later, bring about Irish unity. But the facts on the ground suggest a third option, a kind of middle way, one that reflects the reality of lives as lived on the island rather than any abstract ideals or history: interdependence.