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Spring 2025 Seminars, The Clough Center Election Series

The Clough Center Elections Series: Ireland’s Election Result: More of the Same

Professor Mary C. Murphy from Boston College will present a seminar on Ireland’s election results on April 1, 2025. Her research focuses on Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit dynamics. Her recent book won the UACES Best Book Prize in 2023, analyzing Northern Ireland’s constitutional future post-Brexit. Recommended readings complement the seminar.

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We are excited to announce that Professor Mary C. Murphy, Political Science Professor at Boston College, will join us in the Clough Center’s Spring 2025 Seminars. She will deliver a talk about Ireland’s election results. The event will be held on April 1, 2025 at noon in the McEllroy 237 conference room at Boston College

Mary C. Murphy (Political Science Professor, Boston College)

Professor Murphy’s main research and teaching interests include Ireland/Northern Ireland and the EU, peace and conflict in Northern Ireland, and the politics of Brexit on the island of Ireland. Her current research focuses on post-Brexit Northern Ireland and relations with the EU and US. In addition to being a member of the Political Science Faculty, she is the Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College.

Murphy’s latest book, co-authored with Jonathan Evershed, A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit (Agenda/Columbia University Press 2022), won the UACES Best Book Prize in 2023. The book examines the factors, actors, and dynamics that are most likely to be influential, and potentially transformative, in determining Northern Ireland’s constitutional future after Brexit. It offers an assessment of how Brexit and its fallout may lead to constitutional upheaval and includes a cautionary warning about the need to prepare for it.

Professor Murphy has suggested two articles that seminar participants can read to engage in this discussion. The articles will provide insights into the context of the talk. They are accessible via the links below.