political position
This country shares the only land border with Northern Ireland.
What is the Republic of Ireland?
This peace deal helped end a lot of conflict.
What is the Good Friday Agreement?
This 2016 vote caused major questions about the Irish border.
What is the Brexit referendum?
This unionist party strongly opposes the Northern Ireland Protocol.
What is the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)?
This political union helped keep the Irish border open before Brexit.
What is the European Union?
This principle decides whether Northern Ireland stays in the UK.
What is the principle of consent?
This type of government requires unionists and nationalists to share power.
What is power-sharing?
This arrangement kept Northern Ireland aligned with some EU rules to avoid a hard border.
What is the Norhtern Ireland Protocol?
This nationalist party supports keeping the island border open and linked to the EU.
What is Sinn Féin?
This type of difficulty made Brexit especially complicated for Northern Ireland.
What are trade/economic problems?
People in Northern Ireland can choose to be British, Irish, or this.
What is a combination of both?
This citizenship right is protected by the Good Friday Agreement.
What is the right to be British, Irish, or both?
This updated deal replaced the original arrangement with smoother rules.
What is the Windsor Framework?
This party tries to stay neutral on identity issues.
What is the Alliance Party?
This group of people feels not fully British or Irish, but somewhere in between.
Who are people with a mixed identity?
This part of the UK has a special political system because of its history.
What is Northern Ireland?
This decades-long conflict was the main reason the Agreement was created.
What are the Troubles?
Checks now happen between these regions.
What is Northern Ireland and Great Britain?
This future goal - supported by nationalists - involves joining the Republic of Ireland.
What is a united Ireland?
This European organization still influences some rules in Northern Ireland.
What is the European Union?
This idea - connected to how people see themselves - is especially important in Northern Irish politics.
What is identity?
This kind of cooperation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland increased after the agreement.
What is cross-border cooperation?
This Northern Irish government body has been suspended several times due to disagreements over Brexit.
What is the Northern Ireland Assembly / Stormont?
Parties in Northern Ireland must balance questions of identity with these concerns.
What are economic concerns?
This major constitutional question has become more active again because of Brexit.
What is the question of Irish unity?