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How Brexit shows the vital importance of Ireland s seas and ports Updated / Monday, 1 Feb 2021 13:54 According to Nicholas Allen, author of the recently published (Oxford University Press, 2020), Ireland is an island that forgot itself . UCC’s Claire Connolly has identified how Ireland’s relationship with its seas, coasts and ports has long been uncomfortable and defined by feelings of unease, dizziness and sea-sickness. It s one shaped by the violence of empire and a political culture which attaches primary importance to agriculture, land and land ownership. While Ireland’s religious, industrial, demographic and geo-political histories have all been shaped by the sea, the maritime features surprisingly little in the Irish cultural imagination. There are, as Gillian O’Brien’s excellent ....