The transformation of the Irish border |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for British-Irish Studies, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;2. Centre for International Borders Research and School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen''s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK;1. Department of Building Energy Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų g. 48, LT51367 Kaunas, Lithuania;2. Department of Environmental Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilėnų pl. 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania;1. Department of Criminal Investigation, Central Police University, No. 56, Shujen Road, Takang Village, Kueishan District, Taoyuan City 33304, Taiwan, ROC;2. Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC;3. Department of Forensic Science, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Rd, West Haven, CT 06516, USA;4. Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, No. 155, Sec. 2, Linong Street, Taipei 11221, Taiwan, ROC;1. Instituto de Investigaciones en Catálisis y Petroquímica INCAPE (FIQ, UNL – CONICET), Santiago del Estero 2654, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina;2. Fábrica Carioca de Catalisadores S.A., Rua Nélson da Silva, 663, Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 23565-160, Brazil;1. Département de Préhistoire du Muséum National d''Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de l''Homme Préhistorique, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris, France;2. Laboratoire des Sciences du climat et de l''environnement (LSCE, UMR CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Bâtiment 12, Avenue de la terrasse, Campus du CNRS, 91198 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France;4. Paléotime, 6173 rue Jean-Séraphin Achard-Picard, 38250 Villard-de-Lans, France;5. Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5199 PACEA, bâtiment B8, allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, CS 50023, 33615 Pessac Cedex, France;6. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany;1. Trauma Research Unit Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;2. Consumer Safety Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;1. Department of Surgery, Mount Lebanon Hospital, Hazmieh, Lebanon;2. American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon |
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| Abstract: | This article introduces a special issue dealing with partition and the reconfiguration of the Irish border. Notwithstanding southern nationalist refusal to accept the partition of Ireland in 1921, the border gradually consolidated its position. The article describes the transformation in relations across the Irish border which first found a place on the political agenda in the early 1970s, but which was given full institutional expression only following the Good Friday agreement of 1998. This new configuration has two aspects, which seem at first sight to be in conflict with each other: it marks a new, unreserved acceptance of the legitimacy of the border by Irish nationalists (though moderated by British agreement to end partition if the two parts of Ireland so wish), and it is characterised by a significant growth in public sector bodies which span the border. |
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