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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CCBS 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 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“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 […]
Read MoreAdvice Sector Seminar on Welfare Reform in NI
24 April 2017, 11.00am – 12.30pm – Online! Delivered by Citizens Advice this online session provides a basic overview and introduction to welfare reform, including Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment and the mitigations package. This will enable participants to answer general queries, recognise when a client or service user may not be claiming what they […]
Read MoreCCBS Director & Deputy Director speak at Seminar on the Impact of Brexit on Citizens Rights
The workshop, organised by the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) and the Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCCB), took place at Queen’s University in Belfast and was attended by 40 participants. Parts of the workshop were broadcast live and followed by over 300 viewers online. The workshop was organised in the framework of the project […]
Read MoreCCBS Annual Conference 23 & 24 February 2017
The Centre for Cross Border Studies’ 2017 Annual Conference took place at the Armagh City Hotel on Thursday 23 & Friday 24 February 2017. It facilitated wide-ranging and informed discussions on the theme of Building and maintaining relationships: within, across and beyond these islands after the Referendum. The Centre was delighted to welcome speakers and attendees […]
Read MoreCCBS Meets with British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Sovereign Matters
CCBS Director Ruth Taillon and CCBS Deputy Director Anthony Soares presented oral evidence to the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Sovereign Matters at a special session in Belfast on 23 January. The Committee was interested in the implications of Brexit for Ireland, as well as Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. In particular, […]
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