Spring 2025: The Boundary Commission Centenary: Visions of Ireland, North and South

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The Spring 2025 issue of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review contains 150 pages of articles, poetry and book reviews. Below is the table of contents.

• Editorial

Articles

• Harnessing the Potential of the GoodFriday Agreement: The Shared Island Initiative | Micheál Martin
• The Irish Boundary Commission: A History | Cormac Moore
• The Boundary Commission: Why the Commission Failed to Produce Expected Gains | Ted Hallett
• European Integration and Ireland’s Place in an Evolving European Union | Paschal Donohoe
• Visions of Ireland, North and South: An Historical Perspective | Jane Ohlmeyer
• Irish Unity: Some Societal Consequences | John Coakley
• Narrowing the Gap between the Economies on the Island | John FitzGerald

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• Contested Categories, Changing Meanings and Identity Disjunctures on the Island of Ireland | Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd
• The Good Friday Agreement and the Road to Self-Determination | Brian Feeney
• A Century on and the Fear of a Boundary Commission Has Been Replaced by the Fear of a Border Poll | Alex Kane
• The Boundary Commission Revisited: The Thatcher–FitzGerald Talks | Stephen Collins
• After Good Friday: Learning from Experience and Evolving Identity | Seamus Murphy SJ
• How Ireland Navigated the Turbulent Waters of Brexit | Brian Murphy 

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• Three Poems | Ciarán O’Rourke
• The Matter with Things: A Monumental Journey of Discovery | Patrick Nolan 

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