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Associate Professor International Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin.British-Irish relations, GFA, Northern Ireland politics
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Timely event on B-I relations,Mar 3, 6pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD, before Martin-Starmer summit www.eventbrite.ie/e/british-ir...

@tcd Long Room Hub hosts timely event on ‘B-I relations: challenges & opportunities’ with @markhennessy.bsky.social @irishtimes.com Sonya Hyland, DFA, Rory Montgomery, former ambassador, Mary C. Murphy, Boston College, & @etaintannam.bsky. www.eventbrite.ie/e/british-ir...

Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin voters in the Republic and unionist voters in Northern Ireland agree on something www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Book Launch: ‘British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century’ by Etain Tannam

Interesting findings @ArinsProject, @IrishTimesPol shows B-IIGC potential in UI (& now) if used creatively. How to connect Ireland and Britain after unity? Once mothballed institution may be key www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... @conorjkelly.bsky.social

Department of Foreign Affairs (& Trade) looking splendid this evening, on my way home!

And if you’re really keen, and want to buy the book; here’s a link to the discount fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac…

Delighted to be able to share a chapter of my recent book ‘British- Irish Relations in the 21st Century’, free access until March 10th! fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac…

Delighted to be going to Boston for Feb 12, to launch my book, ‘British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century’, at an event hosted by Mary C Murphy. See link below

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Surprised at wording in Shared Isl/B-I section Prog for Gov, given reconciliation aim: ‘committed to the unity of the Irish people’. Hume said ‘unity of ‘people’ on island -not only ‘Irish’! No mention of BIIGC, or NSMC, or of ‘robust implementation’ of 3 strands,was in 2020, in this section.

Some of the latest offerings from The Irish Times' Common Ground project - journalism matters, your support matters: www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/

Timely to share this again by Robert Elgie, 2018: ‘Maybe the…election will return someone who has a…more expansive conception of the office? Or maybe a second-term President Higgins would be tempted to push the boundaries even a fraction more?’ www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

For subscribers to the @businesspost.bsky.social, I was interviewed by @mcgrathdominic.bsky.social earlier this week on what the Irish election results mean for British-Irish relations. www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

Ross Neill, a solicitor from a unionist background living in Dublin, is a valuable, articulate contribution to the debate on forging a new Ireland. Do read it. For Northern Protestants comfortably to call themselves Irish, what it means to be Irish must change also www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Fascinating Arins My Identity Event with Naomi Long MLA & Prof Colin Graham. Check it out online in 7 days

If you are looking for a quick weekend read, my blog with @ukandeu.bsky.social covers the recent Irish general election results and the implications for British-Irish relations. #GE24 @bairishstudies.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/will-the-iri...

Must-read by @conorjkelly.bsky.social on the potential impact of the election on B-I relations & warning that the GFA’s E-W institutions ‘should run alongside, and arguably be prioritised over, ad hoc summits or photo op events’.

Newton Emerson: ‘Dublin does have a role in reforming Stormont’s structures.The agreement requires all its institutions to be kept under regular review by the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference…This requirement has long been neglected’. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... by Lisa Keenan & Gail McElroy @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social

It was a privilege to Chair the 4th John and Pat Hume Foundation ‘European Spirit of Peace’ annual lecture, given yesterday by former Tanaiste & Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney. A very moving & candid lecture. www.iiea.com/events/4th-j...

Micheal Martin welcomes Benn’s ‘reiteration’of his ‘commitment to ongoing discussions between the British and Irish governments - as co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement’ & both will discuss Legacy at Edinburgh BIC www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Holiday season feeling in @tcddublin.bsky.social as Christmas tree is lit!

Post-#GE24 govt formation latest: Tues/Wed: First meetings of new parliamentary parties Thurs: Mary Lou McDonald to meet Cian O’Callaghan Ivana Bacik to meet Roderic O’Gorman Fri: Simon Harris and Micheál Martin to meet (on margins of British-Irish Council in Edinburgh) Bacik to meet O’Callaghan

Security cooperation discussed at today’s British Irish Intergovernmental Conference meeting. More bilateralism will be needed to counter myriad threats to CTA / international security. www.gov.ie/en/press-rel...

Election result is not the straightforward success story Sinn Féin are selling www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

In my excitement I forgot to thank TCD colleagues who were v central in @conunitucl.bsky.social Referendums working group & in giving me food for thought, especially as I lack their legal expertise, @orandoyle.bsky.social & @dkennytcd.bsky.social . Apologies to both-esp given your centrality