Irish Reunification by 2030?

What is the likelihood of Irish reunification by 2030? How would a referendum work? What preparations are underway in the governments of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain? What challenges remain and what lessons do other reunification processes teach?

Adam Tooze and Stephanie McCurry discuss these questions with Brendan O’Leary and Niall ó Dochartaigh.

Brendan O’Leary is Chair and Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author, most recently, of Making Sense of a United Ireland (Penguin 2022).

Niall ó Dochartaigh is Professor of Political Science, University of Galway, and author of Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (Oxford 2021).

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