Post-Brexit Crisis of Britishness and its implications in Northern Ireland

Abstract

The 2016’s referendum has been one of the main subjects of discussions in Britain. While Northern Ireland expressed its will to remain within the European Union, it found itself forced to follow the path of England which voted in favour of leaving it. In fact, many questions started to emerge, including the sense of the British union and the issues of Devolution, Nationalism, and Britishness which have become themes of discussions today. The Good Friday Agreement in 1998 that ended the thirty years of bloody war may be threatened. Our main objective behind conducting this research is to show the consequences of Brexit on the stability of the British unity. We will particularly examine the impact of the crisis of Britishness on the relationships between Northern Ireland and the UK by using the expository method.