In this guest post, Dr Paul Breen reflects on the question of Remembrance and the poppy from a United Irelander perspective. Michelle O’Neill’s decision to lay a wreath at Belfast’s Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday is a powerful and symbolic gesture. By doing so, she is keeping the promise she made on the day she assumed […]
Author: Irish Border Poll
This article first appeared in The Northern Star here: https://thenorthernstar.online/2024/09/25/reconstituting-the-nations-britain-and-ireland-after-brexit/ This is the text of a talk given by Peter Ramsay to the Desmond Greaves Summer School 2024 in Dublin. He argues that the reconstitution of a sovereign nation-state in Britain depends on the achievement of Irish national sovereignty, and that the relation of the two nations […]
Border Poll Conversation with Alex Kane
Welcome to irishborderpoll.com’s fourth ‘Border Poll Conversations’ video podcast. We chat to interesting people with interesting things to say about constitutional change, border polls, the future of the Union and a United Ireland. In this podcast we chat with the most famous and respected of all unionist commentators, Alex Kane. He talks about his early […]
Welcome to irishborderpoll.com’s third ‘Border Poll Conversations’ video podcast. We chat to interesting people with interesting things to say about constitutional change, border polls, the future of the Union and a United Ireland. On June 15th thousands will fill the SSE Arena in Belfast for the latest ‘Ireland’s Future – Pathway To Change’ conference. It […]
Welcome to irishborderpoll.com’s second ‘Border Poll Conversations’ video podcast, a new regular feature. We chat to people with interesting things to say about constitutional change, border polls, the future of the Union and a United Ireland. Following the two recent referendum results in the 26 Counties, opinion polls show a rise in support for Aontú. […]
United Irelanders may have noticed over the past few months that Young Fine Gael (YFG) have been active in pushing the Unity question on a number of fronts. From publishing their All Island Transportation document and pushing for a Citizens Assembly they have made quite an impact. John Healy and Jude O`Kane have been at the […]
Gabriel McCaffrey (@gabefin) is an Irish immigrant in Canada and a board member Friends of Sinn Féin Canada. Gabriel left Ireland in the 1980s during the significant exodus triggered by the economic and political instability that was caused by the policy failures and corruption of the governments of Haughey and Fitzgerald. He settled in Canada, […]
Gabriel McCaffrey (@gabefin) is an Irish immigrant in Canada. He wrote a dispatch for us in the run up to St. Patrick’s day 2024. As we approach St. Patrick’s Day, and living in Canada, I wanted to share some thoughts on the Diaspora community here and how it experience’s the reality of life as Irish […]
Welcome to irishborderpoll.com’s first ever ‘Border Poll Conversations’ video podcast, a new regular feature. We chat to interesting people with interesting things to say about constitutional change, border polls, the future of the Union and a United Ireland. For our first Border Poll Conversation we talk to John Alderdice, former leader of the Alliance Party […]
Irish Unity: Change is Coming
“I believe that the constitutional conversation in Ireland is like a Kettle on a gas hob – it’s just beginning to bubble – But very soon- it going to whistle”. John Finucane Below is the speech delivered by Sinn Fein MP John Finucane at our irishborderpoll.com Irish Unity debate in Westminster last week. Other speakers were Former […]