Jonathan Evershed, University College Dublin On Monday 23 November, after months of negotiations following the Senedd (Welsh Parliament)...

Dagmar Schiek, University College Cork What is happening in Germany after the elections? Where will the new government lead the country,...

Giada Lagana, Cardiff University Anna Tulin-Brett, NUI Galway Darren Litter, Queen's University Belfast The post Second World War context...

Kathryn Simpson, Manchester Metropolitan University On Wednesday 21st April 2021, European Movement Ireland (EMI) launched their annual...

Robert Sata, Central European University Hungary has acquired international notoriety over recent years for leading the wave of...

Pierre Le Mouel, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne Following the failure of the 2004 United Nations (UN) led referendum, the entry of...

Andrew Cottey, University College Cork Barring the hopefully unlikely scenarios of an anti-democratic coup by Donald Trump or a...

Giada Lagana, Cardiff University Over the past twenty years, Northern Ireland has achieved significant improvements in the economic life...

Chris Clarke, The Glucksman As art museums and spaces across Ireland deal with the impact of COVID -19, it’s easy to forget about Brexit....

Gavin Barrett, University College Dublin The ongoing controversy over EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan’s involvement in the ‘Golfgate’...

Etain Tannam, Trinity College Dublin ‘The Border is not a line on the map. It is a mental border built on fear, prejudice and...

Mary C. Murphy, University College Cork Ireland’s 2020 general election was fought and won on a promise of change. Although domestic...

Jonathan Evershed, University College Cork As I write this, working from home at the tail end of a period of ‘self-isolation’, the Brexit...

Piaras Mac Éinrí, University College Cork Official Ireland has been having a good Brexit war so far. Our nearest neighbour may be leaving...

Cira Palli, Ulster University Like everybody else in Catalonia, I got the news last Monday morning. The Spanish Supreme Court had ruled...

Jelena Radakovic, University College Dublin This week, all eyes were on Brussels as negotiating teams once again endeavoured to reach an...

Patrick Holden, University of Plymouth As the Brexit stand-off approaches its climax, the prospect of a Northern Ireland only backstop...

ADDRESS BY SINN FÉIN PRESIDENT MARY LOU MCDONALD TD, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, FRIDAY...

Etain Tannam, Trinity College Dublin The announcement of the Withdrawal Agreement on November 13th was a momentous occasion, regardless...

IACES Annual Lecture 2018 'A New Ireland in a New Europe'  Mary Lou McDonald TD, President of Sinn Féin 11:00 - 12:30, Friday 30th...

John O'Callaghan, St. Angela's College, Sligo When historians entered the bear pit of daily politics before the Brexit referendum to...

Patrick Holden, University of Plymouth All eyes are on Jeremy Corbyn at the moment as Theresa May’s travails continue. The Labour party...

Jonathan Evershed, University College Cork It is difficult to conclude that the recent Salzburg summit of EU leaders was anything short...

Michael Toomey, Reading University Since the victory of Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party in the 2010 Parliamentary elections, much...

Kathryn Simpson Manchester Metropolitan University Brexit (still) means Brexit. Yet, the problem the UK Prime Minister Theresa May faces...

Patrick Holden, University of Plymouth The role of economic forces in shaping the UK’s Brexit policy seems to have been a classic case of...

Amelia Hadfield, Director of European Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University and Christopher Logie, research analyst at the...

Aideen Elliott, Maynooth University Despite the fact that the number of people arriving in Europe to look for international protection...

Gavin Barrett, University College Dublin Tony Blair once famously compared then British Prime Minister David Cameron’s badly...

John O’Brennan, Maynooth University On Tuesday, 12 June, Greece and Macedonia announced a historic compromise in their decades-long...

Giada Lagana, NUI Galway For over 20 years, the EU has provided dedicated funding for cross-border programmes which support peace and...

Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey & Deputy Director of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe A recognised staple of any political...

By Aideen Elliott, Maynooth University Since the summer of 2015 when the refugee and migration crisis was at its height, the European...

By Janice Morphet, University College London How far have the events since the beginning of November, or perhaps since Theresa May’s...

By Professor Bernadette Whelan, Associate Professor Emeritae, University of Limerick History, both domestic and international, is...

By John O’Brennan, Maynooth University The decision by UK Prime Minister Theresa May to ask the House of Commons to vote on whether to...

By John O’Brennan, Maynooth University (Originally posted 16 February 2017) A week of domestic political turbulence in Ireland was...

By Francis Jacobs, European Parliament (retired) and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, UCD (Originally published 14 April 2017) The...

By Francis Jacobs, European Parliament (retired) and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, UCD The European Parliament has now adopted its...

By Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan, University College Cork (Originally Posted April 4th) Discussion of the the European Union (EU) typically...

By Anthony Costello and Mary C. Murphy, University College Cork As Brexit looms ever closer, it brings with it the most profound...

By Professor Philomena Murray, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne and Dr Laura Allison-Reumann, Nanyang...