- 04, 07, 2017
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- By ReimaginingEurope
- Katy Hayward
Where Brexit means … significantly more than a soundbite
Katy Hayward moves beyond the Brexit soundbite to look at what Brexit means for the island of Ireland and the fragile peace process that has been secured by Britain’s and Ireland’s membership of the EU.
Read More- 05, 03, 2016
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- Katy Hayward, Peace, Reconciliation
Brexit debate risks exacerbating division in Northern Ireland
Katy Hayward, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in Queen’s University Belfast, looks at how the possibility of Brexit is already exacerbating division in Northern Ireland. She shows that there are few European regions that have benefited quite so evidently from EU membership as Northern Ireland, but that these gains risk being called into question with the possibility of Brexit.
Read More- 03, 23, 2016
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- David Chillingworth, EU Referendum, Identity
Managing complex identities - the modern European
David Chillingworth, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, explores the question of Brexit from the perspective of an Irish person who now regards Scotland as home. He makes the case that small nations with distinctive identities respond positively to the idea that they can also be part of something much bigger, which is why Scotland seems to be more pro-EU than the rest of Britain. For the same reason he holds that it would be in our best interests if a Brexit were to lead to the break-up of the UK. He makes clear that he will vote for Britain to remain in the EU but he questions whether the referendum campaign with its complexity of different issues is really the best way of deciding this issue.
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