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The language of Partitionism is fading

Partition became a reality embraced on both sides of the border by a counter-revolutionary dispensation that set out to normalise the British imposed settlement. Reflecting establishment positions, mainstream print and...

Rebel Songs in a United Ireland

As conversations in Ireland progress on how and if a united Ireland is achievable, our leaders need to ensure that their positions on unification are balanced and veer away from...

Cultural accommodation in the here and now

Seán Mac Cárthaigh was one of a number of people who wrote a paper on cultural accommodation presented at Féile an Phobail Belfast in August. Below he outlines the rationale...

Quite a week for United Irelanders

Quite a week for United Irelanders Leo. Colum. Wallace. Duncan. Members of Ireland’s latest boy band? Not quite, but this quartet have been singing mellifluously from the same hymn sheet...

Lights out for ‘our wee country’

Journalist Sam McBride penned an article in which he stated that the north of Ireland is just over a month away from a ‘blackout crisis’. The Kilroot power station just...

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Unionism and Unification

Ciarán Hartley 1 September 2023

In November 2022 Ireland’s Future, a non-party political group supporting Irish reunification, hosted an event

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We are eager to engage with supporters and opponents of a border poll and promote debate with those who are undecided. If you would like to write for us, notify us about an event or like more information please email [email protected].
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Quotes for a border poll

"A border poll is going to happen at some point. Among my friends, who are all boys who are Protestants - well, men, we`re all 54 - they would really consider now what the notion of a new union of Ireland might look like, and I think there's a lot of people that think that."
James Nesbitt, actor
James Nesbitt, actorQuoted in the Irish Times
"To me it simply doesn't make sense to have two national football teams on an island this size never mind two health systems, two education systems and two governments. As an Irish citizen, I want the island of Ireland to be reunified under a government for all our people."
James McClean, football player
James McClean, football playerQuoted in the Daily Mirror
"You don't feel like there is a border anymore and we have lived for many years now with that feeling and the feeling is great for all of us.... It's only six counties of Ireland now and one of these days it will it'll be 32 and that`ll be the end of it."
Adrian Dunbar, actor
Adrian Dunbar, actorQuoted in The Sun
"The unification of Ireland is inevitable... There are things that are happening that are outside the control of politicians. There is a movement of people and the imagination of people... There is nothing logical about a partitioned island. Let`s just quietly move on to unity."
Steven Rea, actor
Steven Rea, actorQuoted in the Irish Times
"It has always been a deeply dispiriting business being a Northerner and nothing has changed. It is still a deeply dysfunctional, non-viable entity, triumphalist, institutionally racist, sectarian, homophobic and almost completely segregated. ....Things are not going to change, so a united Ireland is the only viable solution."
Joe Brolly, Ireland's leading GAA pundit
Joe Brolly, Ireland's leading GAA punditQuoted in the Sunday Independent
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Making Sense of a United Ireland

Irish Border Poll 6 June 2023

Watch this online irishborderpoll.com discussion with Professor Brendan O’Leary, author of ‘Making Sense of a United Ireland’, which took place on Monday June 12th. Pro-Irish

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