Britishness, Irishness And Institutional Links

Britishness, Irishness And Institutional Links

PI: Dr Paul Gillespie

The School of Politics and International Relations and the Institute for British-Irish Studies, UCD are delighted to announce that a project led by Dr Paul Gillespie has received New Foundations funding from the Irish Research Council. The project develops on the Constitutional Futures work already underway at UCD-IBIS.

Project Summary:

Rapid political and possible constitutional change in and between Ireland and Britain after Brexit is a pressing issue for governments and citizens. Changing senses of Britishness and Irishness are associated with potential new institutional links between them. Britishness is asserted as a core political identity by Northern Ireland unionists, while in other parts of the UK, it variously competes with or supplements local national identities. So does Irishness on both islands. In  this project 20 Irish and British scholars will jointly map, analyse, publish a book and publicise its findings on new links in and between the two islands responding to these changing political identities. 

The project links the Institute for British-Irish Studies in University College Dublin, through its Constitutional Futures after Brexit project directed by Dr Paul Gillespie working with UCD Newman Fellow in Constitutional Futures Dr Jonathan Evershed, in a partnership with the (opens in a new window)Centre on Constitutional Change in the University of Edinburgh through its co-director Prof. Nicola McEwen and CCC Fellow and founding  director Prof. Michael Keating.