Good Friday Agreement – Brexit Institute

Making the ‘Special Arrangement’ Work: The ‘Good Faith’ Implementation of the Protocol

June 10, 2021

Colin Harvey (Queen’s University Belfast) Northern Ireland has always been, and remains, a ‘special arrangement’. The changes in the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) do not alter the…

Belfast/Good Friday Agreement & the Erosion of Trust

April 30, 2021

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Lisa Claire Whitten (Queen’s University Belfast) Signatories to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement pledged to “firmly dedicate” themselves” to the pursuit of “reconciliation, tolerance and mutual trust” in the hope of…

An Uneasy Peace: The Protocol = War!

April 26, 2021

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Lee McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) Over Easter 2021 Northern Ireland witnessed in its centenary year some of its worst cases of sustained street violence in many loyalist areas of Greater…

A Year in the Life: Lessons on the Resilience of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol

March 31, 2021

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John Cotter (Keele University) About a year ago, I wrote a blog for the DCU Brexit Institute for the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of the signing of the Good…

“Don’t Mention the Poll”: The Good Friday Agreement and À la Carte Consent

March 31, 2021

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City University) The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) anticipated the need for constitutional change and one of its many achievements is that it gave us an agreed…