CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS: STEPS TOWARDS CHANGE
DATE & TIME
Thursday, 10th December
5:30 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
5:15 PM
Registration – Tea/Coffee
5.30 PM
Chair Welcome
Mr Quintin Oliver
Director, Stratagem
Keynote Speaker
Mr Dick Spring
Respondent
Mr Deaglán de Bréadún
Irish Times
please
Closing Comments
HE Mr Julian King
British Embassy
Q & A Session
The keynote speaker for this event is Mr Dick Spring,
former Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in
successive Irish governments. Mr Spring will focus on
his experience of change in North-South relations
during his periods in government (1980s and 1990s). Mr
Deaglán de Bréadún of the Irish Times will follow Mr
Spring’s address, looking at these and later changes.
Closing comments will be made by the British
Ambassador, HE Mr Julian King. The chair for the
evening is Mr Quintin Oliver, director of Stratagem,
who will provide a civil-society focus.
This lecture 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
evening lecture is conceived under the specific subtheme of ‘The private sector, cross-border
cooperation and the Northern Ireland peace process in
the 1980s and 1990s.
Wine Reception
ORGANISED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR BRITISH-IRISH STUDIES (IBIS), IN ASSOCIATION WITH INTERTRADEIRELAND AND
UNIVERSITIES IRELAND
IBIS would also like to acknowledge support from the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Reconciliation Fund