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Kieran Allen’s latest book, 32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland, is a valuable polemical addition to the debates surrounding Ireland, Brexit, the prospect of a “Border Poll”, and Irish unification. It is most useful as a crisp historical account of partition and its political effects but less convincing as a justification for Allen’s current political perspectives.
There is no doubt that we live in extraordinary and unpredictable times. Covid-19 has proven just how quickly life as we know it can change. Few would have predicted our current situation only a short time ago, just as few would have predicted that the issue of Irish Unity would be pushed to the forefront of political debate and become an increasingly likely eventuality in the near future. Unity, once thought of as a remote and distant prospect, is no longer a question of if, but when.