ARINS podcast 36: Nationality and citizenship in Ireland, north and south
Host Rory Montgomery meets Brice Dickson and Aoife O’Donoghue to discuss the topic of Dickson’s recent paper (written with Tom Hickey) on how British and/or Irish nationality is currently acquired and lost, first under the law in Northern Ireland and then under the law in Ireland.
This paper also looks at some of the rights that Irish citizens currently have in the UK and that UK citizens currently have in Ireland, paying particular attention to the impact of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998 on those rights.
Read the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1353/isia.2024.a932295
Having served from 1999 to 2005 as the first Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, a body set up as a result of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, Brice Dickson was employed in the School of Law at Queen’s University from 2005 to 2017 as a Professor of International and Comparative Law. Since retiring from full-time employment, Brice Dickson still takes a keen interest in the work of the Human Rights Centre in the School of Law and remains a Research Associate at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and an Emeritus Fellow of the University’s Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.
Aoife O’Donoghue is a professor of law in Queen’s University Belfast since 2022, having previously lectured in Durham University and the University of Galway.