In Britain, there never seems to be a ‘good time’ to talk about Irish unity. Yet for some within Britain’s Irish community, the time is now. On Monday evening November 18th, London-based advocates for Irish reunification gathered in Portcullis House, Westminster, across the road from Big Ben, to intensify discussions on the issue. With the […]

The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, dissolved the Dáil, on 8th November and a general election will take place in the Republic on the 29th of this month. The two main coalition parties in Government, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, go into this electoral contestnervous but expectant of a good result on the basis of recent favourable opinion polls.  Nervous because there is little enthusiasm for the present administration but hopeful because of the travails of […]

If you were promised a fundamental choice about your future, you’d like to think you would get to exercise it. Right? While the North/NI is a complicated place, the constitutional question is at heart really quite simple. People have the right to decide their own fate: the Union with Britain or a united Ireland.  The conversation about Irish unity continues […]

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 […]

Not infrequently, people in Britain have asked why the red poppy which commemorates British military war dead generates hostility and opposition from some Irish people and Celtic supporters. With poppy-wearing season upon us we thought it timely to release an edited extract from Chapter 5 of our book The Blood Stained Poppy which we hope goes some […]

By Ben Collins, author of Irish Unity:Time To Prepare First of all I don’t think Donald Trump wakes up in the morning thinking of Ireland, except perhaps when he is contemplating his golf course in Doonbeg. But like the rest of the world, President Trump’s re-election has implications for Ireland and also specifically for the prospect […]

Professor Jon Tonge recently reported that his survey of Alliance party members showed a majority believe there will be and should be a border poll in the next decade. Eóin Tennyson, newly elected Deputy Leader of the party, stated in an interview with the Belfast Telegraph published on 28th October that Alliance would have a ‘leadership role’ in navigating the […]

The media in the Irish Republic have been strangely convulsed lately by the events around the resignation of a Sinn Féin backbench T.D., Brian Stanley. The national broadcaster, RTE,has majored heavily on the story and the “paper of record”, the Irish Times, (always anxious to put the boot into Sinn Féin), has devoted its leading headlines to it. On the face of it, it is hard to fathom why Stanley’s resignation should elicit such […]

Four years ago the Irish establishment was rocked when Sinn Fein topped the poll in the General Election. Working class and young people unable to afford rents or homes voted for the party in huge numbers. Dubbed left wing populists by the media, pundits warned that if the party got into government the Republic it […]

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 […]