The participants in this study of young children’s social identity in the border region of Ireland, reside in several areas along both sides of the border separating Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The settings ranged between pre-school (3/4 years) and 6/7 years. The key criterion for selection of the participants was that they crossed the border to avail of, mainly, educational/c...

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between trust, testimony and truth recovery processes as part of post-conflict transition. The paper uses the case study of unionist attitudes toward a community-based truth-telling project in Northern Ireland to demonstrate the impact an absence of trust can have upon what the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur has described as the ‘space of ...

Despite control efforts, Mycobacterium bovis incidence among cattle remains high in parts of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, attracting political and public health interest in potential spread from animals to humans. To determine incidence among humans and to identify associated factors, we conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of human M. bovis cases in England, Wales, and Northern I...

Our focus in this Article is not predominantly on the doctrinal intricacies of the constitutional framework in Northern Ireland. In fact, while we acknowledge the considerable sophistication of that framework, one of our contentions is that an overly legalistic focus on the shape and forms of constitutional architecture masks key questions concerning the broader political and ideological role o...

The Northern Ireland problem was arguably the most time-consuming of all the domestic political issues to which Tony Blair directed his attention. It found a place at the outset in new Labour’s package of constitutional reforms, and was closely related to—but distinct from—the programme of territorial devolution in Great Britain. This paper analyses the painful stages through which the devoluti...

This article explores the context within which abortion law and discourse in Northern Ireland must be situated and understood, relying in part on post-modern insights into the wider and long-term implications of feminists engaging law and by examining the strategies employed in Northern Ireland around the issue of abortion. In 2001, the Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland) took legal ...