Sam McBride & Mark Hennessy: For or Against a United Ireland - The Arguments

With the prospect of Irish unification is stronger than at any point since partition, voters on both sides of the border may soon have to confront what a referendum question would mean. Join Sam McBride, journalist and author of For and Against a United Ireland (co-written with Fintan O’Toole) and Mark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor of The Irish Times and leader of the newspaper’s Common Ground project, for a fresh discussion of the arguments for and against unity. Chaired by Simon Kingston, founder of the West Cork History Festival.

Please enter the Maughan Library by the main entrance, which is on the left-hand side of the courtyard, directly underneath the clock. There is a map showing the Library’s location here: Maughan Library | King's College London

Books available
Signed copies of For and Against a United Ireland by Sam McBride

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