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Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 2020-2023

QUB Talks 100 – The Partition of Ireland: Causes and Consequences

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Tuomas Tepora

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Maurice Manning

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Contributor:Professor Bill KissaneTalk Title:The Partition of Ireland in a Global ContextTalk Synopsis:This talk explores partition in an international context and also the similarities and differences between what happened in Ireland and elsewhere, including Cyprus, India and Palestine. It suggests that most partitions are ‘provisional’ because they ‘fail to resolve conflicts’ and looks at ‘the identity shifts that occur when borders change’ and what these meant (and mean) in an Irish context. It looks at how majority rule ‘polarised rather than reconciled’ communities in Northern Ireland and the way in which Partition led to ‘consolidation and identity formation based on religion’ in the decades that followed. And it concludes by considering what the experience and effect of partition might mean for future attempts to resolve deep-seated territorial  conflicts.Short biography:Bill Kissane is a Reader in Politics at the London School of Economics.Further Reading:Literature, Partition and the Nation State – Joe Cleary'Ethnic Conflict and the Two State Solution: the Irish Experience of Partition'. Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways, Ancilliary Paper, No.3, 2004. Institute of British Studies. Queens University Belfast – John Coakley'Shackles Across the Heart: Comparing Ireland's Partition', A Treatise on Northern Ireland Vol 1, pp.370-397 – Brendan O'LearyPartitions and the Sisyphean Making of Peoples – Dirk Moses.Partition in Ireland, India, and Palestine: Theory and Practice – T. G. Fraser

Contributor: Professor Bill Kissane Talk Title: The Partition of Ireland in a Global Context Talk Synopsis: This talk explores partition in an international context and also the similarities and differences between what happened in Ireland and elsewhere, including Cyprus, India and Palestine. It suggests that most partitions are ‘provisional’ because they ‘fail to resolve conflicts’ and looks at ‘the identity shifts that occur when borders change’ and what these meant (and mean) in an Irish context. It looks at how majority rule ‘polarised rather than reconciled’ communities in Northern Ireland and the way in which Partition led to ‘consolidation and identity formation based on religion’ in the decades that followed. And it concludes by considering what the experience and effect of partition might mean for future attempts to resolve deep-seated territorial  conflicts. Short biography: Bill Kissane is a Reader in Politics at the London School of Economics. Further Reading: Literature, Partition and the Nation State – Joe Cleary 'Ethnic Conflict and the Two State Solution: the Irish Experience of Partition'. Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways, Ancilliary Paper, No.3, 2004. Institute of British Studies. Queens University Belfast – John Coakley 'Shackles Across the Heart: Comparing Ireland's Partition', A Treatise on Northern Ireland Vol 1, pp.370-397 – Brendan O'Leary Partitions and the Sisyphean Making of Peoples – Dirk Moses. Partition in Ireland, India, and Palestine: Theory and Practice – T. G. Fraser

Professor Bill Kissane - The Partition of Ireland in a Global Context

This episode features a paper by Dr Bill Kissane from the London School of Economics. The paper - 'State formation, contested legitimacy and civil war in independent Ireland 1922-23' - was introduced by Dr Marie Coleman (QUB).

Bill Kissane. State formation, contested legitimacy and civil war in independent Ireland 1922-23.