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Configuring Irish Unification Processes: A Response to 'The Good Friday Agreement and a United Ireland' by Rory Montgomery

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  • A RESPONSE TO ‘THE GOOD F RIDAY AGREEMEN T AND A UNITED IRELAND’, BY RORY MONTGOMERY

  • The challenge is to encourage unionist participation, given that the political leaders of unionism are unlikely to ‘engage in discussion if any doubt remained about the outcome of a Northern Ireland vote’ and possibly even afterwards

  • Montgomery proposes a process in three stages: referendums north and south, negotiations, a constitutional referendum to design a united Ireland

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A RESPONSE TO ‘THE GOOD F RIDAY AGREEMEN T AND A UNITED IRELAND’, BY RORY MONTGOMERY. The issue of Irish unification has recently become the subject of serious political and academic discussion. Rory Montgomery provides a fascinating account of how the constitutional section was drafted, before extrapolating a potential process of unification.

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