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Contributor:

Professor Mary E. Daly

Talk Title:

Partition and the Two Irelands

Talk Synopsis:

This talk explores how Partition was ‘a defining moment for the two Irish states that were founded in the early 1920s’ and its impact on politics, inter-governmental relations and border communities. It suggests that Partition ‘accentuated differences and contrasting identities’ in both jurisdictions and that both ‘Ireland and Northern Ireland suffered from a sense of incompleteness’ from what happened and all that followed. It describes how attitudes and relationships have changed over time and also the gaps in ‘real knowledge’ of each other that remain for many people living in different parts of the island.

Short Biography:

Mary E. Daly is Professor Emerita in Irish History at University College Dublin. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Group that advises the Irish government on the commemorative programme for the Decade of Centenaries 2012-23.

Further reading

Sixties Ireland, Reshaping the economy, state and society 1957-1973 – Mary E. Daly
Playing it cool: the response of the British and Irish government to the crisis in Northern Ireland, 1968-69, Irish Studies in international affairs (2001) – Ronan Fanning
Ireland 1798-1998 – Alvin Jackson
Fianna Fail, partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 – Stephen Kelly
Division and consensus: The politics of cross-border relations in Ireland, 1926-1968 – Michael Kennedy
Old parchment and water: the Boundary Commission of 1925 and the copper-fastening of the Irish border (an Irish Studies Review, vol. 4 no 2, 2000) – Margaret O’Callaghan

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