ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South

In this month’s ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery speaks with Adele Bergin, Seamus McGuinness and Conor Banahan of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin about their recently published ARINS article: ‘Who is Better Off? UpdatedCross-Border Differences in Living Standards, Opportunities and Quality of Life on the Island of Ireland’. The discussion covers their recent work which provide...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, Rory Montgomery is in conversation with Professor Nikos Skoutaris about his recent article, ‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ published by ARINS in  Irish Studies in International Affairs.    The article is available open access, as are all ARINS publications, and can be read here: https://mus...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, Professor Brendan O’Leary (UPenn) and Professor John Garry (QUB) together with host Rory Montgomery discuss the recently published article they co-authored with Dr James Pow (QUB):  My Symbols or Our Symbols? The Effect of Inclusive Narratives on the Acceptability of Out-Group Symbols .   The article is available open access in  Irish Studies in International Affairs...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the Irish Studies in International Affairs article, Beyond Identity and Ideology: how deliberation can reframe constitutional debate with its authors Dr Shelley Deane (DCU), Professor Joanne McEvoy (Aberdeen) and Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD).   The article discusses a series of grassroots cross-border, cross-community deliberative cafe...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery chat to Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride about their recent ARINS publication: For and Against a United Ireland .   The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for t...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the recent Irish Studies in International Affairs article, A Review of Employment Law in Ireland, North and South, with its authors Esther McGuinness (Ulster University), Desmond Ryan (Trinity College Dublin) and  Rory O'Connell (Ulster University).     The article explores the evolution and current state of employment law across th...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the recent Irish Studies in International Affairs article, European Perceptions of Scottish Independence Before and After Brexit, with its authors Paul Anderson (Liverpool John Moore) and Coree Brown Swan (Stirling University).  The article examines European perceptions of Scottish independence before and after Brexit, focusing on the r...

ARINS: Reform of Stormont, Options for Discussion  In this month’s ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery discusses the recent UCL Constitution Unit report ‘Reform of Stormont: Options for Discussion’ with its authors, Conor Kelly, Alan Renwick and Alan Whysall.    This is episode 44 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, former Deputy First Minister and leader of the SDLP, Mark Durkan discusses his political career with host Rory Montgomery. The conversation focuses on the recent book by Professor Graham Spencer, The SDLP, Politics and Peace: the Mark Durkan interviews which was published in 2024 by Peter Lang.    This is episode 43 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based re...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, Professor Brendan O’Leary (UPenn), Professor John McGarry (QUB), Dr Dawn Walsh (UCD) and Dr James Pow (QUB) together with host Rory Montgomery discuss the recently published results of surveys conducted in 2024. The discussion covers opinions on membership of NATO and the Commonwealth, attitudes towards immigration, the role of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Con...

In this month’s ARINS podcast, Dr Ida Milne and Dr Ian d’Alton, with host Rory Montgomery, discuss the lives of Southern Irish Protestants, including their own experiences. The conversation focuses on their 2019 co-edited collection of essays, Protestant and Irish: The minority’s search for place in independent Ireland https://bit.ly/3Cous3i and Ian d’Alton’s 2024, Southern Irish Protestants: Hist...

In this month's ARINS podcast Stephen Roulston and Martin Brown, with host Rory Montgomery, discuss education systems in Ireland. Their recent paper is 'A Century of Growing Apart and Challenges of Coming Together: Education Across the Island of Ireland'. Read the article in full here: https://bit.ly/3BCCZyX This is episode 40 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis...

Religion has played a huge role in the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland. There has been little comparative analysis, however, of the legal elements of this topic. Prof Oran Doyle, Prof David Kenny & Prof Christopher McCrudden discuss, with host Rory Montgomery, their recent paper on the convergence and divergence in religious law on the Island of Ireland, North and South. Read more here...

This episode, Birnie Esmond, Senior Economist in the Ulster University Business School discusses his recent paper 'Trading Places: Continuity and Change in Northern Ireland's Trading Relationships' with John FitzGerald, Adjunct Professor of the Department of Economics Trinity College Dublin, and host Rory Montgomery. The paper is available to read here: https://bit.ly/3NSWCFE This is episode 38 of...

In this month's ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery discusses the paper 'Beyond unionism and nationalism: do the ‘neithers’ want a border poll and a United Ireland?' with one of its authors, Jon Tonge, Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool. Read the article in full here: https://bit.ly/3XPHHkb This is episode 37 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis o...

Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Brice Dickson and Aoife O'Donoghue in this month's ARINS podcast. They discuss the topic of Dickson's recent paper (written with Tom Hickey) on how British and/or Irish nationality is currently acquired and lost, first under the law in Northern Ireland and then under the law in Ireland. This paper also looks at some of the rights that Irish citizens cu...

Dr Evelyn Collins and Niall Crowley, along with host Rory Montgomery, explore the frameworks of equality legislation, institutions and policy mechanisms that underpin the equality agenda in Northern Ireland and in Ireland. Learn more in their recently published paper:  muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/912707 This is episode 35 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on t...

This week, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Cheryl Lawther discuss the politics of apologies within the Northern Ireland Peace Process. This is based of Kieran's recent paper 'Abject and True Remorse': Loyalism and the Politics of Regret in Northern Ireland' which is part of the Irish Studies in International Affairs journal, available at this link https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/922...

Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Paul Nolan to discuss censuses and how they have influenced, and will influence, Northern Ireland's constitutional position. This discussion is based on Paul's most recent paper 'The Imprint of Finality? Partition and Census Enumeration' which can be read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/article/921576 This is episode 33 of a podcast series that...

Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Pat Leahy, Political Editor of the Irish Times and Mark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor of the Irish Times. Their conversation focuses on how north-south and east-west relationships are covered in the media and the recently launched Irish Times initiative, 'Common Ground', which examines the constitutional issues facing Great Britain, Northern Ireland...

Host Rory Montgomery is joined by Professor John Doyle, VP for research at DCU, Dr Esmond Birnie, senior economist, University of Ulster, and Professor Edgar Morgenroth, professor of Economics at DCU to discuss the the UK financial ‘subvention’ to Northern Ireland. Their conversation is based around Doyle's paper arguing that the 'subvention' does not matter and Birnie's response a...

In this month's ARINS podcast host Rory Montgomery meets Clayton Ó'Néill (Senior Lecturer of Law at Queen's University Belfast) and Andrea Mulligan (barrister and Assistant Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin). Mulligan and Ó Néill are the authors of the article 'Health Law: Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland', which can be read here:  muse.jhu.edu/pub/4...

In the January ARINS podcast on the ARINS/IrishTimes survey Rory Montgomery hosts Professors John Garry (QUB) and Brendan O’Leary (UPENN) authors of the survey along with Dr Jamie Pow (QUB). Together they scrutinise the intriguing findings of the ARINS/Irish Times survey and disentangle the answers to seasoned questions asked in the ’22 Survey, while exploring the perceptions and expectations pose...

Anurag Dep is a PhD researcher in law at QUB and Ian Jeffers commissioner for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland, soon to be chief executive of Cooperation Ireland speak to our host Rory Montgomery about the legal framework of provision of rights and support to victims of crime in Ireland and Northern Ireland. What legal frameworks support the rights for victims of crime? How have rights ha...

In this month’s ARINScast Paul Gosling author of 'A New Ireland' and 'Lessons from the Troubles and the Unsettled Peace', shares his insights regarding the quality of life, the standard and cost of living, and disparities in disposable income, (income inequality) in and across Northern Ireland, Ireland and Britain with Professor John Fitzgerald and our ARINS host Rory Montgomery. D...