Troubled Constitutional Future

Mary C. Murphy holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and is Senior Lecturer in Politics at University College Cork. Her books include Northern Ireland and the European Union (2014) and The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South (2010) (coeditor). Jonathan Evershed is a Newman Fellow in Constitutional Futures at the Institute for British-Irish Studies, University College Dublin.

• 1. Introduction2. Northern Ireland and the great Brexit disruption3. Irish Nationalism4. Ulster Unionism5. The "middle ground"6. The British and Irish governments7. What prospects for the constitutional future(s) of Northern Ireland, and of "these islands"?

This is not simply another book on Brexit... This is an informative, well researched book on the complexities of the UK-Irish relationship, the impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland and its potential constitutional consequences... it weaves together insights from the different communities in and around Northern Ireland and highlights the challenges to be addressed... A fine piece of writing that provides strong insights to a highly salient political question.