A blog post by Dr. Ben Warwick for the University of Birmingham’s Perspectives, discussing the Northern Ireland ‘backstop’.
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On this page, you will find all the work we are doing relating to governance issues specific to Northern Ireland in the 21st century. Brexit contributes to the current issues in NI governance, but other governance matters - UK-specific or Northern Ireland-specific - are relatively independent of Brexit issues and instead are the consequence of multilevel governance.
Brexit: David Trimble’s legal challenge to the Irish backstop is a hiding to nothing.
A blog post in The Conversation by Mr. Colin Murray, discussing David Trimble’s legal challenge against the part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement relating to the so-called Irish “backstop”, for breaching the Good Friday Agreement.
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Commentary: The Ireland/NI Protocol.
Our analysis of the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland, as attached to the Withdrawal Agreement.
An updated version of this document has been submitted to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for their ‘Implications of the EU Withdrawal Agreement and the Backstop for Northern Ireland’ Inquiry.
Constitutional Conundrums: Animations.
As part of the ESRC IAA funding we commissioned a variety of animations from creative collective Roots and Wings, centering on issues to do with the referendum, the Irish border, and the negotiations on Brexit. They can be seen below.
Performing Identities: Post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the reshaping of 21st-Century Governance.
The Performing Identities project is being funded by the ESRC Governance After Brexit grant scheme. The project team will spend at least 16 months working on the a set of questions about the effects of Brexit on identity in Northern Ireland, along a new research assistant (Megan Armstrong) and in collaboration with Roots and Wings and the Human Rights Consortium.
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Proceed to Phase Two. All systems go for Brexit?
An op-ed on the Joint Report published after Phase 1 of the negotiations.
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Commentary: Joint Report on Phase 1 of the UK/EU Negotiations.
We published our immediate reaction to the Phase One agreement in the form of an annotated account of the Report. Three key issues are central to understanding how this Report changes the dynamic of Brexit insofar as it impacts on Northern Ireland: they are, first, the categorisation of individuals, second, the difference between EU rights and freedoms, and third, the role of consent in any change to the status of Northern Ireland.
Policy Paper: Northern Ireland and the Brave New World of Brexit.
With October 2017 witnessing the beginning of consideration of amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill and the culmination of efforts to address aspects of Brexit affecting the island of Ireland in Phase 1 of the UK’s withdrawal negotiations, this paper is intended to focus on some of the emerging issues for Northern Ireland as the contours of Brexit become increasingly defined.
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Oral Evidence: ‘The land border between NI and Ireland’ Inquiry.
Dr. Sylvia de Mars presented oral evidence in front of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on 11th October 2017 as a response to the “land border between Northern Ireland and Ireland” inquiry.
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