This Essay assesses the achievement of restoring representative government and also considers whether this is enough given the changes that have occurred since last there was devolved government in Northern Ireland. Finally, it examines those aspects of the Agreement that can be developed in line with a view that the constitution should now be seen much less as a structure of rule than a framew...

How abortion is dealt with in law and policy is shaped through the multiple political and societal discourses on the issue within a particular society. Debate on abortion is constantly in flux, with progressive and regressive movements witnessed globally. This paper examines the translation of human rights norms into discourses on abortion in Northern Ireland, a region where abortion is highly ...

This paper makes a comparative analysis of the treatment Georgian heritage in Northern Ireland (NI) and Republic (Éire). It assesses this through review listing practices, lost houses, parallel evolution planning policies along with historical reasons for this, analyzing nature drivers limits to conservation buildings Ireland. NI Éire share most factors that led early twentieth century signific...

(Re)gaining citizens’ trust is a challenge for post-war governments. Political crucial understanding both the risk of civil war in first place and state-society relationships that emerge afterwards. Peace agreements are tools to stop fighting, address war’s injustices, provide blueprint state’s future – they do so varying degrees. Yet we have little systematic knowledge how people react such wi...

In recent years there has been a renewal of interest in community development and partnership approaches in the delivery of health and social services in Northern Ireland. The general thrust of these approaches is that local communities can be organized to address health and social needs and to work with government agencies, voluntary bodies and local authorities in delivering services and loca...

Due to a recent and dramatic rise in suicide and self-harm rates, mental health services have received a high level of attention in the politics of Northern Ireland, resulting in the implementation of numerous policies and the publication of many public reviews on the subject. Critically, these policies have also emphasized and required the participation of mental health service users in decisi...

26 more academically orientated, general education. Specifically, we consider the consequences of a reform that affected access to grammar schools in Northern Ireland, when England is used as the comparison group. The two regions of the UK differ in that the grammar school system has been retained in Northern Ireland whereas it was gradually dismantled in England in the 1960s and 1970s. The hal...