After Windsor Constitutional Futures of these Islands

COMHRÁ COIS COIRIBE / CORRIB CONVERSATIONS

After Windsor

Constitutional Futures of these Islands

Fáilte / Welcome

Daniel Carey

Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

University of Galway

Cathaoirleach / Chair

Róisín Healy

Co-Director, Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters

University of Galway

Brexit and the Death of Devolution?

Richard Wyn Jones

Director, Wales Governance Centre and Dean of Public Affairs

Cardiff University

Strategy and Irish Reunification

Brendan O’Leary

Lauder Professor of Political Science

University of Pennsylvania

Following the presentations and discussion, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, University of Galway, will launch Brendan O’Leary’s Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it Happen? How Might it Happen? (Penguin, 2022), which was completed while he was a Fulbright Fellow in the University of Galway in 2021–22.

Róisín Healy is a historian of modern Europe at the University of Galway, where she is Head of the Discipline of History and a Co-Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters. She has published widely on the history of Imperial Germany, Irish nationalism and intra-European colonialism, with particular reference to Ireland and Prussian Poland. Among her many publications are The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany (Brill, 2003) and Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). She has edited several collections of essays, including Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past (Routledge, 2019), with Enrico dal Lago, The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and, with Gearóid Barry, Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Niall Ó Dochartaigh, a political scientist at the University of Galway, is the author of Deniable Contact: Back Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021; paperback, 2023), an analysis of secret negotiations between the British government and Irish republicans during the late twentieth-century ‘Troubles’. Among his many other publications on the politics of that conflict is a seminal study of the outbreak of violence in Derry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Cork University Press, 1997; Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He is co-editor of several collections of essays, including, with Daniel Pisoiu and Lorenzo Bosi, Political Violence in Context (ECPR Press 2015), and, with Katy Hayward and Elizabeth Meehan, of Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (Routledge 2017).

Brendan O’Leary is the author, co-author and editor of thirty books. His research interests include theories of the liberal democratic state, nationalism, national and ethnic conflict regulation, and power-sharing in deeply divided places. The inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the study of federalism, democratization, and multinational states, he is a Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and he has served as the second Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing in the Mediation Unit of the United Nations. Northern Ireland and Ireland have been key concerns over the course of his career. His most recent books are the landmark A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it Happen? How Might it Happen? (Penguin, 2022). O’Leary teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Lauder Professor of Political Sciences.

Richard Wyn Jones is a political scientist at Cardiff University, where he is Director of the Wales Governance Centre and Dean of Public Affairs. He has written extensively, in Welsh and English, on the politics of Wales, devolution in the United Kingdom, and nationalism. His most recent books are The Criminal Justice System in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2022) and Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain (Oxford University Press, 2021).  He is a regular broadcaster, commentating on Welsh politics across the UK. He has presented two TV series and is a regular columnist for the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn. In addition, he contributes comment columns to various newspapers including the Western Mail, Irish Times, Guardian and Sunday Times.

This event is facilitated by the Office of the Deputy President and Registrar and the Office of the Vice-President for Research.

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