Debate of the day
Is Ireland on the road to reunification?
Audio 29:30
A Sinn Fein party campaign poster in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 3, 2022. © AP - Peter Morrison
By: Anne Corpet Follow
1 min
Northern Irish people are due to go to the polls this Thursday (May 5, 2022) for a general election.
The polls give the majority to Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, in favor of the reunification of the island.
A first in the history of the six British counties of Ireland, dominated for a century by the unionists, favorable to the maintenance of this part of the island within the United Kingdom.
Does the crown of England risk losing one of its jewels if this victory is confirmed?
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To discuss:
- Fabrice Mourlon
, professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Agnès Maillot
, professor at the University of Dublin (Dublin City University).
Author of a book published in English on the Sinn Féin party (Rebels in government: is Sinn Féin ready for power) (2022), and in French
The IRA and the Northern Irish conflict
, Presses Universitaires de Caen (2018)
- Christophe Gillissen,
professor of British and Irish civilization at the University of Caen Normandy.
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