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Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eneighbours\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e, and for their society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eJournalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland. What do the words 'united Ireland' even mean? Would it be better for Northern Ireland? Would it improve lives in the Republic of Ireland? And could it be brought about without bloodshed?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eO’Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland’s most intractable questions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eBrought to you by the \u003ca title=\"arinsproject.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ria.ie\/research-programmes\/arins\/\"\u003earinsproject.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.infiniteguff.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eCartoons by Fergus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eBoylan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eFor and against a united Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The book they have jointly written does not take refuge in easy categories or simple arguments. They each write two chapters in which they argue for and then against a united Ireland. It is a sign of their skill that the arguments they make for unity seem oddly solid and unassailable, and then their arguments against a united Ireland do as well.'  \u003cbr\u003e— Colm Tóibín, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'O’Toole and McBride set out to demonstrate a core principle of liberal democracy: that free and reasoned deliberation can help ensure good quality, consensual outcomes … With intelligence and rigour, they have each made historically significant interventions as journalists and authors.'\u003cbr\u003e— Prof Katy Hayward, \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A major and unique contribution … The book illuminates the mindsets of the nationalist and unionist traditions more effectively than many passionate representatives of those traditions have ever achieved … Remarkably and fittingly, unionists and nationalists, northerners and southerners, will find themselves united in recommending this book.'\u003cbr\u003e—  Prof David Mitchell, \u003cem\u003eSlugger O’Toole\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I'd say to anybody: Definitely buy this book... unionists need to read this book.'\u003cbr\u003e— Tim Cairns, ex-DUP adviser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Well-informed and readable ... essential reading.'\u003cbr\u003e— Colin Harvey, Ireland's Future\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'They’ve produced a book which is really really interesting.'\u003cbr\u003e— Matt Cooper, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Word Podcast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Very interesting, rational arguments on both sides.'\u003cbr\u003e— Hugh Linehan, \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times: Election Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Sam McBride and Fintan O’Toole are among some of the best-known journalists on the island of Ireland.'\u003cbr\u003e— Ciarán Dunbar, \u003cem\u003eBelTel Podcast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Most of the arguments made for and against a united Ireland are advanced publicly by individuals or organisations with skin in the game. We are well used to hearing people attempting to make the facts fit with their own particular preferred outcome. Not so Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride in their new book ‘For and against a united Ireland’, in which they argue for and against constitutional change leaving aside as best as they can any personal baggage they might carry with them on the subject’.                                      — Mark Carruthers, BBC Red Lines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/columnists\/sam-mcbride\/unity-or-the-union-both-sides-have-a-good-argument-but-rarely-is-it-made-in-a-sensible-way\/a1450499348.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eSam McBride writes about how the book came about and why they have written it (Belfast Telegraph, 27 June 2025)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFintan versus Sam: The united Ireland debate.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/audio\/play\/p0m8kmqk\"\u003eListen back\u003c\/a\u003e to Red Lines, 14 October 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-uyHpLhABk?si=dc5-6ePLvOcmPNCG\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Irish Academy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52457548677466,"sku":"9781802050356","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":52457548710234,"sku":"9781802050370","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/9537\/8132\/files\/ForandagainstaunitedIreland_2.webp?v=1750755528"},{"product_id":"irish-stem-lives","title":"Irish STEM Lives","description":"\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Bliss; color: black; font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish STEM lives \u003c\/em\u003eis available now!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-IE; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Bliss; mso-ascii-font-family: Bliss; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eAcross artificial intelligence, climate change, food safety, transport and communication, the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are integral to modern society. 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