The Full Speech By The EU Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier To The Oireachtas
Today’s address by Michel Barnier, the European Union’s lead Brexit negotiator, to a joint session of Oireachtas Éireann indicates justContinue Reading
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Northern Nationalists Will Be The Largest Group Of Indigenous EU Citizens Outside The EU
The newly released policy document, “Ireland and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union: The Government’s Approach”,Continue Reading
The Unionist Dilemma In Ireland, Self-Interest Versus Nationality In A Post-Brexit Europe
Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff to prime minister Tony Blair and the lead negotiator for the United Kingdom duringContinue Reading
Mad Dogs And Englishmen: Brexit Britain Threatens War With Spain
It seems that the empire-nostalgic British have finally gone off the deep-end as right wing commentators – and former governmentContinue Reading
Britain Struggles With The Good Friday Agreement And Peace In Ireland
On January 23rd, 1973, the United States’ president, Richard M. Nixon, described the multiparty treaty in France which ended theContinue Reading
Initially, A United Ireland Would Be Neither Federal Or Confederal
As the Irish Times has noted, talk of a reunited Ireland is very much in the air. This is reflected inContinue Reading
Melanie Philips And The Revanchist Politics Of Brexit Britain
The supremacist nature of British, or rather, Greater English nationalism is summed up in this extract from a series of oddly contradictory and counterfactualContinue Reading
The Socialist Party, Anti-Austerity Alliance, The Confederation Of The British Isles
Since I had a slightly tongue-in-cheek poke at the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Trotskyist grouping behind the People BeforeContinue Reading
The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
Dermot Ahern, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Predicts Significant Brexit Border
Here is Dermot Ahern, the former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and a senior minister in several FF-led governments from 1997Continue Reading
Britain’s Duplicitous Interpretation Of The Good Friday Agreement Of 1998
As many observers expected, this morning’s judgement by the supreme court in the United Kingdom has thrown not just the Brexit plansContinue Reading
Brexit Negotiations Are Driven By Greater England’s Nostalgia For Its Former Empire
Nicholas Boyle of Magdalene College and the University of Cambridge has written a particularly caustic evaluation of Greater England’s continued hegemony overContinue Reading
Ex-UK Minister And Party Leader, Brexit Must Lead To A Reunited Ireland
Vince Cable, the former leader of the centre-left Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and a senior minister in theContinue Reading
Ulster Unionism, Sustained By The Politics Of Appeasement
At the start of the twentieth century a majority of voters on the island of Ireland in the referendum-style generalContinue Reading
The United States Goes Full Brexit With President Donald J. Trump
Well, here’s one prediction I wish I had got wrong. President Donald J. Trump. Seriously, the United States of America, what the fuck?Continue Reading
Britain Seeks To Control Ireland’s Borders In Deal For No Brexit Barrier Around North
On Saturday afternoon up to a thousand people attended the first in a series of demonstrations in the north of Ireland to protest the possible effects of the UnitedContinue Reading
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
Irish Human Shields To Protect A British Border In Ireland?
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and theContinue Reading
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