UCL Uncovering Politics: Brexit and Northern Ireland
UCL Uncovering Politics: Brexit and Northern Ireland
EPISODE SUMMARY
This week we ask "what have been the legacies of conflict in Northern Ireland?"
EPISODE NOTES
In 1998, after three decades of conflict, lasting peace was achieved in Northern Ireland through an accord variously known as the Good Friday Agreement or the Belfast Agreement. The 25th anniversary of that Agreement comes next month.
Though there are problems – the institutions of power-sharing government established through the Agreement are currently suspended, and pockets of paramilitary violence remain – the settlement reached a quarter of a century ago has been strikingly successful in its central aim: conflict has not returned; and contestation over Northern Ireland’s constitutional future is now conducted solely by political means. People in Northern Ireland have lived in much greater freedom and security as a result. For most people, life has got much better.
Nevertheless, 30 years of conflict were always going to leave lasting legacies that would take time to heal
Rosa Holt | |
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7/11/2023 | |
00:37:52 | |
politics, Podcast, Brexit | |
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