Leavers and Remainers: Southern Ireland’s Exit from the United Kingdom

Some parallels – quite amazing to me – struck me as I was thinking over the summer about the Irish Convention of 1917. I’ve just written on this for the Dublin Review of Books: http://www.drb.ie/blog/comment/2017/08/19/the-first-irexit

Passions, Interests, and Hobbits

My latest column for Critical Quarterly is now available here.

A teachable moment

I have an op-ed piece in today’s Irish Times, available here.

Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective

I have just realised that there is now a video of my talk last November at the National Conference commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Rising. And so I thought I’d post a link to it, here.

The spread of modern manufacturing to the poor periphery

I have a post at Vox describing a recently published book, co-edited with Jeff Williamson.