Etain Tannam
Associate Professor International
Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin.British-Irish relations,
GFA, Northern Ireland politics
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- This is superb by @edwardburke.bsky.social on need for reflection down here on reconciliation, & uncomfortable truths re. our past.Taoiseach’s shared island initiative seeks that, but doesn’t seem widely known at societal level.
- B O’Leary sets out his arguments re. UI. Interesting:Irish shouldn’t be compulsory in schools & Eng & Irish shld have eq.constit status.Re-naming of state bodies recently seems to give Irish more predominance than Eng? #sharedisland youtu.be/3fjX54qx2fg?si… via @YouTube https://youtu.be/3fjX54qx2fg
- Thanks very much to Paul Gillespie for his excellent summary & kind review of my book in today’s Irish Times & to @martindoyle.bsky.social for publishing it
- Thank you to Mespil Hotel for another special birthday celebration for Michael!
- Congrats!
- Remembering oncologist, Hollywood, Donal, on his 12th anniversary, dib.ie/biography/holl… who saved my husband’s life in 1997, and so many others throughout his career.
- Remembering oncologist, Hollywood, Donal, on his 12th anniversary, dib.ie/biography/holl… who saved my husband’s life in 1997, and so many others throughout his career.
- A must-listen from @alan renwick @conor kelly, Alan Whysall, with Rory Montgomery @arinsproject.bsky.social @conunitucl.bsky.social x.com/arinsproject...
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- Congratulations Conor🎉🎉🎉. A lovely photo & memory!
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- Congratulations @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky!
- BIIGC: ‘Ministers reflected on the recent UK-Ireland Summit, including on how future meetings of the BIIGC could complement the programme of cooperation agreed at the Summit’. Good to see planning about how new summit relates to B-IIGC www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Also interesting: govts agreed ‘that any joint approach to legacy will require agreement on all key issues, including…ensuring that there are clear reciprocal commitments by both the UK Government and the Government of Ireland’. (meaning Irl plays its part more actively?) @edwardburke.bsky.social
- BIIGC: ‘Ministers reflected on the recent UK-Ireland Summit, including on how future meetings of the BIIGC could complement the programme of cooperation agreed at the Summit’. Good to see planning about how new summit relates to B-IIGC www.gov.uk/government/n...
- BIIGC: ‘Ministers reflected on the recent UK-Ireland Summit, including on how future meetings of the BIIGC could complement the programme of cooperation agreed at the Summit’. Good to see planning about how new summit relates to B-IIGC www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Great to see! Report is a little inaccurate: BIIGC doesn’t meet twice a year- it meets 3/4 times a year now, but isn’t obliged to (didn’t meet at all from 07 to 18). I think reporter is confusing it with BIC? Headline B-I conf a bit vague too! www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Link here for anyone else who like me, is behind with ‘news’! gov.ie/en/department-…
- Ashamed I’m only reading the full text of @MichealMartinTD #sharedisland speech now & couldn’t attend! A key landmark, with reconciliation at fore, citing Eavan Boland, ‘Mother Ireland’ “now I could tell my story, it was different from the story told about me’ #sharedhomeplace
- Ashamed I’m only reading the full text of @MichealMartinTD #sharedisland speech now & couldn’t attend! A key landmark, with reconciliation at fore, citing Eavan Boland, ‘Mother Ireland’ “now I could tell my story, it was different from the story told about me’ #sharedhomeplace
- @shelleydeane.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky
- Shelley Deane’s excellent talk:O’Leary’s losers’ consent, Mark Durkan’s warning of winners’ triumphalism. + Yeats’ call ‘that we not be petty people’. Terrific @UCD_CPCR conf to launch new book ed by Paul Gillespie, @McEwen_Nicola Michael Keating
- An honour that Emeritus Prof Patrick Keatinge, @TCDPoliticalSci - a huge influence on my work & life, going back to my UG days- came to my book launch 40 years later! Thanks to another big influence, @MichaelgTCD for the photo & for being there too.
- This is wonderful, Etain. Many congratulations on your great success!
- Thank you, Alan. It’s a few weeks ago, but I received the photo today - feeling v chuffed!
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- @edwardburke.bsky.social you were excellent last night on @rteprimetime.bsky.social
- Tommy Meskill: ‘While some might believe that the final communique is lighter on substance than they originally would have liked, one senior diplomat on the Irish side argued that the biggest "takeaway" from the summit is that "it happened’
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- Thanks for working on this with me, Colin
- Delighted to have worked with @conorjkelly.bsky.social again, on this blog post!
- 1) I have a new blog out this morning with the @conunitucl.bsky.social! @etaintannam.bsky.social and I discuss how the new British and Irish governments have tried to reset relations after the tumultuous Brexit period. constitution-unit.com/2025/03/05/m...
- A big thanks to @evepatt.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social for their great help.
- A stimulating discussion last night at @TLRHub @tcddublin Thanks to @MarkHennessy @HylandSonja Rory Montgomery & @MaryCMurphy & to @GillianWylie7 for introducing the event.
- Timely event on B-I relations,Mar 3, 6pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD, before Martin-Starmer summit www.eventbrite.ie/e/british-ir...
- @tcd Long Room Hub hosts timely event on ‘B-I relations: challenges & opportunities’ with @markhennessy.bsky.social @irishtimes.com Sonya Hyland, DFA, Rory Montgomery, former ambassador, Mary C. Murphy, Boston College, & @etaintannam.bsky. www.eventbrite.ie/e/british-ir...
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- Terrifying!
- Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin voters in the Republic and unionist voters in Northern Ireland agree on something www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
- Book Launch: ‘British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century’ by Etain Tannam
- Interesting findings @ArinsProject, @IrishTimesPol shows B-IIGC potential in UI (& now) if used creatively. How to connect Ireland and Britain after unity? Once mothballed institution may be key www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... @conorjkelly.bsky.social
- Department of Foreign Affairs (& Trade) looking splendid this evening, on my way home!
- And if you’re really keen, and want to buy the book; here’s a link to the discount fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac…
- Delighted to be able to share a chapter of my recent book ‘British- Irish Relations in the 21st Century’, free access until March 10th! fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac…
- Delighted to be able to share a chapter of my recent book ‘British- Irish Relations in the 21st Century’, free access until March 10th! fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/ac…
- Delighted to be going to Boston for Feb 12, to launch my book, ‘British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century’, at an event hosted by Mary C Murphy. See link below
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- Thank you!
- Thank you Conor!
- Surprised at wording in Shared Isl/B-I section Prog for Gov, given reconciliation aim: ‘committed to the unity of the Irish people’. Hume said ‘unity of ‘people’ on island -not only ‘Irish’! No mention of BIIGC, or NSMC, or of ‘robust implementation’ of 3 strands,was in 2020, in this section.
- Timely to share this again by Robert Elgie, 2018: ‘Maybe the…election will return someone who has a…more expansive conception of the office? Or maybe a second-term President Higgins would be tempted to push the boundaries even a fraction more?’ www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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- Congratulations!
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- I wonder what happened to him after prison
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- Now I’m missing London!
