Centre for Cross Border Studies Director Ruth Taillon was invited to speak at Féile an Phobail on Saturday 5th August in Belfast. Next year is the 20th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Since the Agreement was signed in 1998, cross-border, all-island and east-west co-operation has been evolving on many fronts: civic, public and business. However, […]
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‘The Garlic Wall’ a talk by Mr Dominique Jan Searle Gibraltar Representative to the UK
Event Date: 28th July 2017 The border between Spain and Gibraltar closed between 1969 and 1985. Used as a device to pressure Gibraltarians the border continues to be a key factor in the life of the Rock and its hinterland. Mr Searle’s presentation looked at the human and political factors of the dispute with Spain and […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon was a guest speaker at a ‘Brexit Briefing’
CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was one of the guest speakers at a ‘Brexit Briefing’ event hosted in the Hotel Kilmore, Cavan on the evening of 11 July by Brendan Smith TD, Chairman of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party. Addressing the audience of more than 200 people in attendance, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern provided a personal […]
Read MoreCCBS Team supports Sectoral Dialogue event on Enterprise Skills Needs and Brexit
The Centre for Cross Border Studies provided support at a Sectoral Dialogue event on Enterprise Skills Needs and Brexit, hosted by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Education and Skills on 3 July at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Frances Fitzgerald TD opened the […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon speaks at EESC conference ‘Brexit and it’s border implications?’
On 23rd June 2017, Centre for Cross Border Studies Director Ruth Taillon was a guest speaker at the the Bureau of the Various Interests’ Group of the EESC at the Ballymascanlon Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland. The location was significant as it is the place where, in 2011, the “New Cross Border Agreement” was signed between the […]
Read More2nd Annual Sir George Quigley Memorial Lecture “Economics: Helping to Make Us Human”
Prof José Luis Iparraguirre, Chief Economist, Age UK, gave the 2nd Annual Sir George Quigley Memorial Lecture “Economics: Helping to Make Us Human” on Thursday 22nd June 2017 in Queen’s University Belfast on behalf of the Centre for Cross Border Studies. Ruth Taillon, Director of the Centre, opened the lecture by paying tribute to Sir George […]
Read MoreGood Practice in Cross-Border Cooperation in the Irish Border Region.
Event Date 20 June 2017. The Centre for Cross Border Studies was delighted to welcome guests to the Canal Court in Newry 20th June 2017 for a seminar on ‘Good Practice in the Cross-Border Cooperation in the Irish Border Region’. The seminar, part of an international study visit for participants in a project funded by […]
Read MoreTEIN Members Visit ‘PEACE Link’ Clones
Following on from the morning seminar ‘ Good Practice in Cross Border Cooperation’ at the Canal Court Hotel Newry and as part of the TEIN International Study Visit, our guests from the ‘Transfrontier Euro-Institute Network’ were taken on a visit to the PEACE Link in Clones. Supported with €7.8 million worth of funding from the European Union’s […]
Read MoreCCBS Director Ruth Taillon presents at ‘Brexit: Charting a Way Forward. A Civil Society Dialogue’
The EU draft guidelines on the forthcoming EU-UK negotiations make it clear that the EU is open to finding ‘flexible and imaginative solutions’ which reflect the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland. The potential threat that Brexit represents to rights and equalities, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the border and the economy in Northern Ireland have been […]
Read More“Sharing Social Innovation and Social Enterprise across the Border: Best practice in the Justice sectors on the island of Ireland”
Event Date: 12th June 2017. The Centre for Cross Border Studies, as a member of the North-South Social Innovation Network Steering Committee, was involved in the organisation of a half-day workshop taking place today, the 12th of June, and dedicated to the sharing of skills and experiences in the areas of Social Enterprise and Social […]
Read MoreCCBS delighted to welcome young leaders from the South Caucasus.
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, […]
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 […]
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