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Article: Breaking and Preserving the Mould: The Third Direct Elections to the European Parliament (1989) - The Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.
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- West European Politics
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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Two decades have passed since the peoples of Ireland joined the EC -- thereby becoming, as Philomena Murray argues in this informative collection, no longer 'an island behind an island'. Yet associated hopes of modernisation have not been fully realised. In 1989 Joe Lee argued trenchantly in Ireland 1912--85 -- Politics and Society that the Republic had failed to emerge from the intellectual shadow of Britain and move towards more successful European models of administration. A year earlier, in Northern Ireland -- The International Perspective, Adrian Guelke drew the depressing conclusion that, far from dissolving the conflict, membership of the EC had merely ...