Ironic inversions and stable purposes: reimagining political traditions in Ireland after the EU Referendum 2016

The outcome and impact of the EU Referendum result in 2016 has raised some interesting questions about living with ideological divisions Northern Ireland how traditions Ireland, on island now stand relation to one another. There are ‘identity effects’ Brexit unionism nationalism, where old prejudices have found new contexts for expression around political arguments been reshaped or reimagined by Brexit. We argue that there clear ironical inversions argument since these ironies traceable first, clearly changing balance power between two main communities second, ethos Republic vis-à-vis provoking what we call separation castration anxiety both nationalism context a future.