Brexit : re-opening Ireland's 'English Question'
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1350-1763; 1466-4429
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The political quarterly, 2018, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 568-575
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LAFFAN, Brigid, Brexit : re-opening Ireland’s ‘English Question’, The political quarterly, 2018, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 568-575 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60535
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The outcome of the UK referendum of June 2016 on the question of EU membership had and will continue to have a profound impact on Ireland, its membership of the EU and on British‐Irish relations, given the UK's choice of exit over voice. This paper analyses Brexit from the perspective of the island of Ireland. It adopts three analytic lenses: first, Brexit is analysed from a domestic Irish perspective; second, the negotiations between the EU and the UK and Ireland's position in these negotiations is analysed from a dynamic temporal perspective; third, the paper focuses on the all island dimension of Brexit and its implications for the Irish border. The Irish border will continue to play a pivotal role in the Brexit negotiations and will remain an unsettled issue long after the UK's exit.
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First published: 22 October 2018