United Nation: The Case for Integrating Ireland by Frank Connolly

Author:Frank Connolly [Connolly, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Political Process, General, Social Science, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Law, Jurisprudence, History, Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, Leadership
ISBN: 9780717190577
Google: fQZuEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Gill
Published: 2022-05-26T20:54:23+00:00

a detailed constitutional process that would follow affirmative votes for unification. …

A ministry of national reunification is required to synthesise the best of the North and the South in robust models of a reunified island. It must engage unionists, nationalists and others – the latter and ‘soft nationalists’ will be the pivotal voters in the North. It must organise citizens’ assemblies, and it will need to oversee a united Ireland transition fund, to be launched after the pandemic is controlled. (O’Leary, Irish Times, 11 January 2021)

O’Leary’s contribution was accompanied by analysis from Dr Peter Shirlow, also a founding member of the ARINS project, and a pro-union voice who claimed that there was no evidence that the necessary conditions for a border poll were close.

Instead, in his article for the Irish Times, Shirlow claimed that the most recent polling and other data suggested that the majority in the North wished to remain in the UK although ‘the desire for Irish unification has grown, but not significantly, since 1998’. He said that those promoting unity among the nationalist population:

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