The Centre for Cross Border Studies was delighted to welcome a delegation of young leaders from the South Caucasus to Armagh on 8 June. Since the early 1990s, the South Caucasus region has been suffering from multiple highly-militarised conflicts, leading to thousands of casualties and millions of refugees and internally displaced persons. To this day, […]
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Sudden Death of Queen’s Vice Chancellor, Patrick Johnston.
The board and staff of the Centre for Cross Border Studies were deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Professor Patrick Johnston, vice-chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast (a founding member institute of the Centre). In his time as vice-chancellor, Professor Johnston was very supportive of the work of the Centre and was a […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon speaks at ‘InSight: making connections across the Irish Sea’
CCBS Director, Ruth Taillon was one of the speakers at Shoreline Voices, held as part of the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, on 3 June, to launch the InSight initiative that will explore the visual, natural and personal connections between South West Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cumbria and Northern Ireland/Ireland. Other contributors were Dr […]
Read MoreDraft EU position papers on Article 50 negotiations
The EU has published draft Brexit negotiation position papers on citizens’ rights and the UK’s financial settlement. Both of the draft papers are available below. EU negotiation working paper – citizens-rights-essential-principles-draft-position-paper_en EU negotiation working paper – financial-settlement-essential-principles-draft-position-paper_en
Read MoreCCBS Publications included in N.I Assembly Library Research Publication: ‘Brexit and Northern Ireland: A Reading List’
The Northern Ireland Assembly Library has just published a 29-page Brexit reading list that includes a large number of The Centre for Cross Border Studies publications. The full reading list is available below. Research and Information Service Briefing Paper For Brexit reports, publications, events and new articles visit the Centre’s Brexit page available through the following […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon attends All-Island Sectoral Dialogue on Brexit “The North West and Wider Border Region”
The Irish Government’s All-Island Sectoral Dialogue on Brexit is continuing. CCBS Director Ruth Taillon attended the most recent consultation event on Monday 22 May in Letterkenny. This event, which attracted 160 participants, was focussed specifically on the North West and the Wider Border Region. Donegal County Council and Derry City and Strabane District Council made […]
Read MoreA full house for CCBS seminar on “Models of Cross-Border Cooperation for a Post-Brexit Context”
CCBS organised a successful information session in Leinster House on the 16th of May, hosted by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Union Affairs. With political representatives and senior policy-makers from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, as well as the Swiss and Norwegian Ambassadors to Ireland and senior staff from the French Embassy […]
Read MoreCCBS & Armagh Robinson Library present A lecture entitled ‘How did people in early medieval Ireland live together? Some insights from archaeology, early Irish documentary sources, and experimental archaeology’
The lecture given on Tuesday 16 May 2017 by Professor Aidan O’Sullivan in Armagh Robinson Library. Organised by the Centre for Cross Border Studies and the Library, this was the second annual lecture organised collaboratively by the two institutions. Professor O’Sullivan lectures at UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. Speaking in advance of his lecture, […]
Read More“Centre for Cross Border Studies meeting with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Written Statement”
‘‘The future of community, social and economic development and cooperation in border counties” Statement by the Centre for Cross Border Studies” has been prepared by Deputy Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies Dr Anthony Soares and Members of the Board of the Centre for Cross Border Studies,Dr Katy Hayward and Mr Philip McDonagh . […]
Read More“How did people in early medieval Ireland live together? Some insights from archaeology, early Irish documentary sources, and experimental archaeology”.
On Tuesday 16th May The Centre for Cross Border Studies and Armagh Robinson Library will hold their Annual Spring Lecture 2017. Professor Aidan O’Sullivan from the School of Archaeology, UCD will give the lecture: “How did people in early medieval Ireland live together? Some insights from archaeology, early Irish documentary sources, and experimental archaeology”. The […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon guest speaks at “Doing Research in a Brexit Environment”
CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was guest speaker at a seminar on Thursday 4 May, “Doing Research in a Brexit Environment” at the School of Business & Humanities Research Day. The slides for her presentation, “Research and the Challenges of Brexit” are available here: Research & Brexit Presentation
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon was guest speaker at a meeting of the United Nations Association
CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was guest speaker at a meeting of the United Nations Association (Northern Ireland) on Wed 3 May. Her talk focused on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace & Security and the work being done under the Irish Government’s National Action Plan. The slides for her presentation are available here Presentation […]
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