RIA author John Gibney at Milwaukee Irish Festival

If you are in Milwaukee this August, join historian and RIA author John Gibney for three talks as part of the Festival's Hedge School.

Reforming the Agreement: A Dublin view

In the Republic the Good Friday Agreement is seen as a towering achievement of Irish diplomacy and statecraft. But while the public and politicians are mostly spared the direct consequences of the failure of the Agreement to fulfil all of its promise, they are aware that it is not working as it should.

This blog post is one of a four part series for Fortnight magazine.

Rory Montgomery

Explaining the different results in opinion polls on Irish unity

Attitude surveys tend to show that public opinion in Northern Ireland, on the political future, has shifted significantly in the aftermath of the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum, but there are significant differences between polls on the scale of this change.  

John Doyle