Ireland will be unified. Ireland will be free of colonial interference. Ireland will achieve its true greatness. Greetings from Italian-American Boston, where we love our Irish neighbors and friends.

only one ireland exists. the island.

I think the true shock is the pragmatism (Not using it positively here.) of both sides. The British supposedly in an Union disregards part of the Union (Reminiscent of the attitudes in An Drochshaol (1845-1852).) and the Irish state disregards the North and indeed has not even prepared for the potential of it being re-unified.

Love how it ends with that quote from the Gerry Rafferty song, class! ;)

Fantastic speech, once we get going in terms of an Irish unification debate and a date for it, this man will be worth more than his weight in gold and could provide clarification for unionists and help sway the middle ground in how best to move forward with unification.

Brilliant!y exp!aimed by Prof. Ferrither . Now how do you solve it . A bringing together of representatives of both governments to solve the problem so that we all can live in peace . Myself I'm very flexible to achieve it . Take a vote of e anybody & see are we in favour of solving the problem for a start . !!!

Superb

I’m very English and I believe that Ireland should be united and a new peaceful chapter should begin for the Island of Ireland.

historians should be politicians....not the other way round

What he says from 4m30secs to 6m are the distillation of the exact problem with the border, any border

David Davis referred to the UK's "internal border with Southern Ireland" which suggests that he does not know the Republic is a country in its own right.

I’m reading your book Ireland 1900 /2000 at the moment Mr F .I found it at a free bookstall in Acton Station three years ago.It’s over eight hundred pages long but so well written .
John Banville Colm Toibin all lightweights compared to your brain .
We are lucky to have this man .I’ll buy you a pint in Finnegans some evening.
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Jesus those Thatcher quotes @38:38! 😳
Makes me embarrassed to be English that a PM could say that - albeit a pro Irish Republican socialist Englishman.
Really hammers home even more how amateurish and disrespectful we’ve been - as if it needed to be

Even were the NI Protocol were to be resolved, the DUP will never go back to Stormont because of Sinn Fein having a First Minister. The DUP don't seem to see there are other communities in Northern Ireland who moved there to be safe and just want public services that are working.

What I never understood is how Unionists are even loyal to a country or government that doesn't even care one bit about them.

I NEVER use the "B" word ... I always say "The Partition" enforced by The British.

He has a head like one of the massive statues on Easter Island. In truth, he's the Roy Keane of Irish academe😂

You can have your United Eire , but the whole country will be in flames .

Absolute tripe, its not going to happen, the EU itself is coming apart at the seams.  Ireland iis probably destined to be subsumed by its migrant influx and the native Irish will soon become an irrelevant minority in its own land and all that ,  may entail. The nationalist birth rate in the Northern Ireland has collapsed and passed its peak in 2011, and their share  of the vote has a diminished considerably. In the last two elections the pro unionist parties ie Alliance , UU,DUP, TUV and independents secured  approx 60% of the vote,  with the combined national vote SF, SDLP and odds and sods gaining only 38% approx. It should also be understood that the gains that SF made were at the expense of the SDLP. Our futures  both North and South are is in some question, and May be settled by people who are not Irish , they may vote for all sorts of unpalatable changes in their interests not ours. One of the biggest groups of migrants into our English interesting isn’t it.

Nothing new Just more Republican stuff