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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Fintan O'Toole, Sam McBrideTheme:Chronological Period/21st Century, Cultural Region/IrelandPublish date:2026-02-15Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268211189ISBN-10:0268211183UPC:9780268211189Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Commentary & Opinion, ModernBook Topic:Ireland, 21st CenturySize:8.70 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SC55XHWP6Q

In For and Against a United Ireland, renowned journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride provide an accessible and measured approach to the polarized debate about Irish unification.

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront what the answer to a referendum question would mean--for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society.

Journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland. What do the words "united Ireland" even mean? Would it be better for Northern Ireland? Would it improve lives in the Republic of Ireland? And could it be brought about without bloodshed?

O'Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland's most intractable questions.

For and Against a United Ireland was commissioned by the ARINS Project (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South), a joint initiative of the University of Notre Dame's Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Royal Irish Academy.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268211189ISBN-10:0268211183UPC:9780268211189Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Commentary & Opinion, ModernBook Topic:Ireland, 21st CenturySize:8.70 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.318Product ID:SC55XHWP6Q

Fintan O'Toole, member of the Royal Irish Academy, is a columnist with The Irish Times and advising editor of the New York Review of Books. His many books on Irish history, politics, society and culture include We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland. He has been awarded the European Press Prize, the Orwell Prize for Journalism, and the Robert Silvers Prize for Journalism.

Sam McBride is the Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and the Sunday Independent newspapers. He also writes on Northern Ireland for The Economist. He is a former Political Editor of the Belfast News Letter and has made a BBC film about the Northern Bank robbery. He is author of The Sunday Times bestseller Burned: The Inside Story of the 'Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite and is a regular broadcaster.


Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

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