NORTH-SOUTH BUSINESS RELATIONS
WHAT DOES AND DOESN’T WORK
DATE & TIME
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
5:15 PM
VENUE
Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street
Dublin 2
The Royal Irish Academy is
located nearly halfway down
Dawson Street, between the
Mansion House and St Anne’s
Church, and is opposite Cafe en
Seine.
INFORMATION
For further details,
contact IBIS.
Tel: 01 716 8670
Email: ibis@ucd.ie
www.ucd.ie/ibis
5:00 PM
Registration – Tea/Coffee
5.15 PM
Chair Welcome
Tim O’Connor
Office of the President
5.25 PM
Summary of recent academic research
John Coakley
University College Dublin
5.35 PM
Roundtable Discussion
Stephen Kingon (Invest Northern Ireland)
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass (Ulster Unionist
Party)
Sean O’Driscoll (Glen Dimplex Group)
Feargal Quinn (Seanad Eireann)
Denis Rooney (International Fund for
Ireland)
please
6.20 PM
Discussion opens to the floor
6.50 PM
Closing Comments
HE Julian King
British Embassy
7.00 PM
Wine Reception
North-South business relations typically began with
informal economic linkages – farming, agriculture,
trade, ecumenical organisations and indeed sport in
the 1960s and 70s. Particular business organisations
had branches in each part of the island. Increasingly
the EU, and in particular the Single European Act,
became important in stimulating an interest in the
‘island economy’, particularly in the 1990s. IBEC-CBI
joint activity began in the early 1990s and a range of
cross-border institutions were formed, especially after
1998 with the NSMC and NS bodies and a whole range
of other less formalised activities.
This roundtable discussion examines that process, to
assess what does and does not work.
This event is in the context of a research project being
conducted in the Institute for British-Irish Studies
(IBIS) at University College Dublin entitled ‘Breaking
the patterns of conflict: the Irish state, the British
dimension and the Northern Ireland conflict’. The
project is funded by the Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). This
roundtable is conceived under the specific sub-theme
of ‘The private sector, cross-border cooperation and
the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1980s and
1990s’.
ORGANISED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR BRITISH-IRISH STUDIES (IBIS) AND THE BRITISH EMBASSY DUBLIN
IBIS would like to acknowledge support from InterTradeIreland, Universities Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs’
Reconciliation Fund