Consenting Adults: The principle of consent and Northern Ireland's Constitutional future

Government and Opposition

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 472-492

  Ginty, Roger Mac ^a   Wilford, Rick ^b   Dowds, Lizanne ^b   Robinson, Gillian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0035642448     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-7053.00077     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. Sec, for example, 'United Ireland in 15 years predicts Adams', 13 February 1999 and 'Ahern says dynamic towards Unity is Irresistible', 23 November 1998, both from Irish Times.
2. The Agreement: Agreement reached in the multi-party negotiations, 10 April 1998, p. 2. Note, the Agreement is often called the 'Belfast Agreement' or the 'Good Friday Agreement'.
3. Cited in Brigid Hadfield, The Northern Ireland Constitution', in B. Hadfield (ed.), Northern Ireland: Politics and Constitution, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1992, pp. 1-12 at p. 4.
4. Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry, The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland, London, The Athlone Press, 1997, 2nd edn, p. 225.
5. W. D. Flackes, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory, London, BBC Books, 1980, pp. 47-8.
6. The Irish government, though, did not amend articles 2 and 3 of its Constitution and a unionist-backed challenge to the articles was rejected by Dublin's Supreme Court.