Katy Hayward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katy Hayward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayward |
| SIGNATURE | HAYWARD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Democracy and discernment
We are entering an era of ‘AI everywhere’, in which Artificial Intelligence is not merely being utilised but integrated into countless aspects of human interaction and occupation. Such is the nature of this integration that AI is not only changing our behaviour but our capabilities. It is also exposing new societal vulnerabilities—particularly in our use of language and the way we access, accumulate, and process information. Communication and inf…
Mashing and clashing sovereignties
The territorial imaginations of those who live in the borderlands of Ireland/Northern Ireland differ according to their identification with the Irish state or that of the United Kingdom. Contradictions between such imaginations were made less significant in the context of European integration and the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement, which allowed British and Irish national aspirations for Northern Ireland to be recognised as equally legitima…
The parliamentary battle over Brexit
Journal Article The parliamentary battle over Brexit Get access The parliamentary battle over Brexit. By Meg Russell and Lisa James. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. 416pp. £25.00. Isbn978 0 19284 971 7. Available as e-book. Katy Hayward Katy Hayward Queen's University Belfast, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 6, November 2023, Pages 2531–2532, https://doi.or…
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst effects at the Irish border in the form of violence, controls and barriers. When the relationship has been good, the Irish border has become - to all intents and purposes - open, invisible and criss-crossed with connections. Throughout its short existence, the symbolism of the border has remained just …
The New Trading ‘Relationship’ between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland proved to be the trickiest element of the UK‐EU Withdrawal Agreement to negotiate. The version that was finally agreed to by both sides sees the EU's customs code and regulatory rules applying in Northern Ireland. In avoiding a hard border for the movement of goods on the island of Ireland, there are new frictions on the movement of goods within the United Kingdom (across the Irish Sea). Implementing the p…
Flexible and Imaginative’
The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement that cemented the peace process formalized Northern Ireland’s position as a region integrally connected to both Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. The multilevel governance and cross-border cooperation this entailed was enabled by common UK and Irish membership of the European Union. The UK’s decision to leave the EU posed risks to this settlement. In response, they engaged in a quest for ‘flexible…
Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region previously synonymous across the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully…
The 2019 General Election in Northern Ireland
The experience of the 2019 general election in Northern Ireland took a very different course to that of the rest of the UK and, indeed, to the pattern of electoral politics typical of the region. Coming after almost three years with no functioning devolved government, combined with intense disagreement and uncertainty about Brexit, voters were ready to give a message to the two largest parties. Both Sinn Féin and the DUP suffered losses in the el…
The Irish Border as a European Union Frontier
The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement defined the conflict in Northern Ireland as being over the border between this part of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland. This article defines and understands the Agreement as one of a number of ‘border regimes’ that operate between the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland and, in doing so, seeks to explain how it is that Brexit has such significant implications for the management o…
Neither/Nor
Since 2006, according to the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, the largest portion of people in Northern Ireland identify themselves not as Unionist nor Nationalist but as Neither. This fact is difficult to tally with the patterns of polarised election results and the narratives of a 'culture war' that dominate most analyses of contemporary Northern Ireland. This article examines the existence of this large portion of the population in Nort…
The pivotal position of the Irish border in the UK's withdrawal from the European Union
This paper shows why the Northern Ireland/Ireland border moved from a marginal to a core concern in the UK’s withdrawal from the EU (‘Brexit’). Drawing on longitudinal research on the impact of the EU on the Irish border, and contemporaneous research on the Phase 1 of negotiations of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, it explains this case study through three broad themes. First, the impact of EU membership on the transformation of the border and, …
Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland
Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland
This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and international debates over state and nation and contested borders, looking at the dialectic between political action and institutions, examining party politics, id…
Conflict and Consensus
Scene from a different angle
Reviews the books, Lessons From the Northern Ireland Peace Process edited by Timothy J. White (2013) and Human Rights as War by Other Means by Jennifer Curtis (2014). Edited by a U.S.-based academic with an enduring interest in Ireland, the first book draws together an interdisciplinary group of academics from across North America and the U.K. (though notably not Northern Ireland itself) to cover such topics as third party intervention, nationali…
Defining Democracy
Book Review: Emerson, Peter, Defining Democracy: Voting Procedures in Decision-making, Elections andGovernance (2nd edn), Springer, London, 2012
Deliberative Democracy in Northern Ireland
The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of April 1998 is, in essence, a consociational arrangement which sees power shared between elites from two political blocs in Northern Ireland: unionism and nationalism.1 When parties signed the Agreement, in effect they agreed to accept the prospect of two divergent aspirations: Northern Ireland could remain in the United Kingdom, which was what unionist parties wanted, or it could be integrated into a single …
The Limits of Local Accommodation
This article examines the difficulties of finding local solutions to the problem of contentious events in contemporary Northern Ireland. In so doing, it offers a sociological perspective on fundamental divisions in Northern Ireland: between classes and between communities. It shows how its chosen case study—parades and associated protests in north Belfast—exemplifies the most fundamental problem that endures in post-Agreement Northern Ireland, na…
The Business of Building Peace
The sustainability of cross-border peacebuilding initiatives is increasingly pertinent in a context of reduced public funding (national and European), yet the potential contribution to be made to this from private sector cooperation remains under-explored. This paper brings together quantitative data on cross-border trade with qualitative evidence from business leaders in the Irish border region in order to examine the nature of cross-border coop…
Irish nationalism and European integration
How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to not just accept but actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union (EU) and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? This book argues that, rather than indicating a pragmatic retreat, such decisions (and their justification on the public stage) reveal the unique power and enduring relevanc…
The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South
1. Introduction: Party Politics and the EU in Ireland, North and South Mary C. Murphy (University College Cork) and Katy Hayward (Queen's University Belfast) 2. Ireland's EU referendum experience Jane O'Mahony (University of Kent at Canterbury) 3. Irish Political Parties and Policy Stances on European Integration Kenneth Benoit (Trinity College Dublin) 4. Irish Political Parties' Attitudes towards Neutrality and the Evolution of the EU's Foreign,…
Nationalism, Territory, and Organized Violence
Recent decades have seen significant advances in research on the relationship between nationalist ideology and organized violence. New scholarship has paid much closer attention to the microdynamics of violence, the strikingly uneven distribution of violence, the relationship between master cleavages and intimate local and personal struggles, and to process, history, and contingency. Nationalist ideology is understood to be bound up intimately wi…
Ireland after Rapid Immigration
Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution
This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process. Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a wide range of sources and actors. The book contains in-depth analyses of official discourses used to present the peace process, the discourses of politi…
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Neither/Nor
Since 2006, according to the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, the largest portion of people in Northern Ireland identify themselves not as Unionist nor Nationalist but as Neither. This fact is difficult to tally with the patterns of polarised election results and the narratives of a 'culture war' that dominate most analyses of contemporary Northern Ireland. This article examines the existence of this large portion of the population in Nort…
Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region previously synonymous across the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated violence that were once commonplace have become thankfully…
Reiterating National Identities
The Haagerup Report commissioned by the European Parliament in 1984 was the first major initiative taken by the European Union (EU) on the situation of conflict in Northern Ireland. It embodied a conceptualization of the conflict as between two national identities defined in relation to the Irish border. The EU's self-ascribed role towards a settlement in Northern Ireland since that time has followed this vein by supporting the peaceful expressio…
The pivotal position of the Irish border in the UK's withdrawal from the European Union
This paper shows why the Northern Ireland/Ireland border moved from a marginal to a core concern in the UK’s withdrawal from the EU (‘Brexit’). Drawing on longitudinal research on the impact of the EU on the Irish border, and contemporaneous research on the Phase 1 of negotiations of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, it explains this case study through three broad themes. First, the impact of EU membership on the transformation of the border and, …
Irish Nationalism and European Integration
How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to not just accept but actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union (EU) and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? This book argues that, rather than indicating a pragmatic retreat, such decisions (and their justification on the public stage) reveal the unique power and enduring relevanc…
THe politics of nuance
To be effective, the institutional and constitutional reforms implemented on the island of Ireland after the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of 1998 needed to be accompanied by conceptual adjustment at all levels of society. It is in this conceptual alteration that official discourse comes into play. This article examines the discourse of the Irish governmental elite regarding three key themes in Irish official nationalism: unity, distinctiveness…
Mediating the European Ideal
This article assesses the conditions, context and consequences of the European Union's role in conflict transformation through cross‐border activity on the island of Ireland via analysis of interviews with individuals directly involved in EU‐facilitated cross‐border programmes, as ‘mediators’ of the European ideal of cross‐border co‐operation as a means to peace‐building
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Reconfiguring Spaces of Conflict
The Irish border has historically been one of the most contested borders in Europe. In the context of the peace process and EU membership, co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been encouraged, supported and normalised, although internal borders of segregation stubbornly remain. This paper offers a conceptualisation of borders in conflict cases and a theoretical account of how European integration can affect their …
Discourses of equality in post-Agreement Northern Ireland
This article analyses the use of equality as a concept central to the implementation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. The authors argue that, although equality legislation is succeeding in redressing previous discrimination in society, the discourses that have emerged around it have exacerbated competition and polarization between communities for two main reasons. Firstly, in " selling' the Agreement to their supporters, pol…
National territory in European space
The meaning and significance of borders in nation‐statehood and European integration are integrally linked in a process of change. Uncovering such connections in a case study notable for its recent transformation, this article explores the way in which the narratives and models of European integration have been used in the discourse of Irish official nationalism. Its central thesis is that participation in the space of European Union has facilita…
The 2019 General Election in Northern Ireland
The experience of the 2019 general election in Northern Ireland took a very different course to that of the rest of the UK and, indeed, to the pattern of electoral politics typical of the region. Coming after almost three years with no functioning devolved government, combined with intense disagreement and uncertainty about Brexit, voters were ready to give a message to the two largest parties. Both Sinn Féin and the DUP suffered losses in the el…
Flexible and Imaginative’
The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement that cemented the peace process formalized Northern Ireland’s position as a region integrally connected to both Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. The multilevel governance and cross-border cooperation this entailed was enabled by common UK and Irish membership of the European Union. The UK’s decision to leave the EU posed risks to this settlement. In response, they engaged in a quest for ‘flexible…
The Business of Building Peace
The sustainability of cross-border peacebuilding initiatives is increasingly pertinent in a context of reduced public funding (national and European), yet the potential contribution to be made to this from private sector cooperation remains under-explored. This paper brings together quantitative data on cross-border trade with qualitative evidence from business leaders in the Irish border region in order to examine the nature of cross-border coop…
The Irish Border as a European Union Frontier
The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement defined the conflict in Northern Ireland as being over the border between this part of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland. This article defines and understands the Agreement as one of a number of ‘border regimes’ that operate between the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland and, in doing so, seeks to explain how it is that Brexit has such significant implications for the management o…
The New Trading ‘Relationship’ between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland proved to be the trickiest element of the UK‐EU Withdrawal Agreement to negotiate. The version that was finally agreed to by both sides sees the EU's customs code and regulatory rules applying in Northern Ireland. In avoiding a hard border for the movement of goods on the island of Ireland, there are new frictions on the movement of goods within the United Kingdom (across the Irish Sea). Implementing the p…
The Limits of Local Accommodation
This article examines the difficulties of finding local solutions to the problem of contentious events in contemporary Northern Ireland. In so doing, it offers a sociological perspective on fundamental divisions in Northern Ireland: between classes and between communities. It shows how its chosen case study—parades and associated protests in north Belfast—exemplifies the most fundamental problem that endures in post-Agreement Northern Ireland, na…
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil is a party used to government, authority and influence in the domestic sphere. This has been to a large part secured by the vitality and strength of its local organization. The party has, in contrast, struggled to find its place in the sphere of European politics. Its main successes in the EU arena have arisen from its experience as Ireland's governing party. This is reflected in the fact that the pro‐Europeanism that exists within th…
‘If at first you don't succeed…’
(2003). ‘If at first you don't succeed...’: the second referendum on the treaty of Nice, 2002. Irish Political Studies: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 120-132
Discourses of equality in post-Agreement Northern Ireland
This article analyses the use of equality as a concept central to the implementation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. The authors argue that, although equality legislation is succeeding in redressing previous discrimination in society, the discourses that have emerged around it have exacerbated competition and polarization between communities for two main reasons. Firstly, in " selling' the Agreement to their supporters, pol…
THe politics of nuance
To be effective, the institutional and constitutional reforms implemented on the island of Ireland after the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of 1998 needed to be accompanied by conceptual adjustment at all levels of society. It is in this conceptual alteration that official discourse comes into play. This article examines the discourse of the Irish governmental elite regarding three key themes in Irish official nationalism: unity, distinctiveness…
Reiterating National Identities
The Haagerup Report commissioned by the European Parliament in 1984 was the first major initiative taken by the European Union (EU) on the situation of conflict in Northern Ireland. It embodied a conceptualization of the conflict as between two national identities defined in relation to the Irish border. The EU's self-ascribed role towards a settlement in Northern Ireland since that time has followed this vein by supporting the peaceful expressio…
National territory in European space
The meaning and significance of borders in nation‐statehood and European integration are integrally linked in a process of change. Uncovering such connections in a case study notable for its recent transformation, this article explores the way in which the narratives and models of European integration have been used in the discourse of Irish official nationalism. Its central thesis is that participation in the space of European Union has facilita…
Mediating the European Ideal
This article assesses the conditions, context and consequences of the European Union's role in conflict transformation through cross‐border activity on the island of Ireland via analysis of interviews with individuals directly involved in EU‐facilitated cross‐border programmes, as ‘mediators’ of the European ideal of cross‐border co‐operation as a means to peace‐building
The Role of Political Discourse in Conflict Transformation
This article introduces this volume by constructing a model for analysing political discourse as an instrument of conflict and peace, drawing on evidence from the Northern Ireland case. It identifies three processes, or stages, in a peace process in which political discourse can play a unique and crucial role: (i) the construction of a (conceptual) framework within which negotiations can take place, (ii) the facilitation of agreement between mode…
Reconfiguring Spaces of Conflict
The Irish border has historically been one of the most contested borders in Europe. In the context of the peace process and EU membership, co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been encouraged, supported and normalised, although internal borders of segregation stubbornly remain. This paper offers a conceptualisation of borders in conflict cases and a theoretical account of how European integration can affect their …
Party Politics and the EU in Ireland, North and South
Irish Nationalism and European Integration
How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to not just accept but actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union (EU) and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? This book argues that, rather than indicating a pragmatic retreat, such decisions (and their justification on the public stage) reveal the unique power and enduring relevanc…
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil is a party used to government, authority and influence in the domestic sphere. This has been to a large part secured by the vitality and strength of its local organization. The party has, in contrast, struggled to find its place in the sphere of European politics. Its main successes in the EU arena have arisen from its experience as Ireland's governing party. This is reflected in the fact that the pro‐Europeanism that exists within th…
Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution
Former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners have played important roles in easing the transition from violence to peace. Fulfilment of such roles does not necessarily involve ideological change. Instead republican ideology may remain centred upon the reproduction of established discursive conflicts, promoted via non-militaristic means. For IRA former prisoners, the peace process has been articulated around the promotion of republican…
Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South
Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution
This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process. Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a wide range of sources and actors. The book contains in-depth analyses of official discourses used to present the peace process, the discourses of politi…
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Irish nationalism and European integration
How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to not just accept but actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union (EU) and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? This book argues that, rather than indicating a pragmatic retreat, such decisions (and their justification on the public stage) reveal the unique power and enduring relevanc…
The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South
1. Introduction: Party Politics and the EU in Ireland, North and South Mary C. Murphy (University College Cork) and Katy Hayward (Queen's University Belfast) 2. Ireland's EU referendum experience Jane O'Mahony (University of Kent at Canterbury) 3. Irish Political Parties and Policy Stances on European Integration Kenneth Benoit (Trinity College Dublin) 4. Irish Political Parties' Attitudes towards Neutrality and the Evolution of the EU's Foreign,…
Nationalism, Territory, and Organized Violence
Recent decades have seen significant advances in research on the relationship between nationalist ideology and organized violence. New scholarship has paid much closer attention to the microdynamics of violence, the strikingly uneven distribution of violence, the relationship between master cleavages and intimate local and personal struggles, and to process, history, and contingency. Nationalist ideology is understood to be bound up intimately wi…
Ireland after Rapid Immigration
Deliberative Democracy in Northern Ireland
The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of April 1998 is, in essence, a consociational arrangement which sees power shared between elites from two political blocs in Northern Ireland: unionism and nationalism.1 When parties signed the Agreement, in effect they agreed to accept the prospect of two divergent aspirations: Northern Ireland could remain in the United Kingdom, which was what unionist parties wanted, or it could be integrated into a single …
The Limits of Local Accommodation
This article examines the difficulties of finding local solutions to the problem of contentious events in contemporary Northern Ireland. In so doing, it offers a sociological perspective on fundamental divisions in Northern Ireland: between classes and between communities. It shows how its chosen case study—parades and associated protests in north Belfast—exemplifies the most fundamental problem that endures in post-Agreement Northern Ireland, na…
The Business of Building Peace
The sustainability of cross-border peacebuilding initiatives is increasingly pertinent in a context of reduced public funding (national and European), yet the potential contribution to be made to this from private sector cooperation remains under-explored. This paper brings together quantitative data on cross-border trade with qualitative evidence from business leaders in the Irish border region in order to examine the nature of cross-border coop…
Conflict and Consensus
Scene from a different angle
Reviews the books, Lessons From the Northern Ireland Peace Process edited by Timothy J. White (2013) and Human Rights as War by Other Means by Jennifer Curtis (2014). Edited by a U.S.-based academic with an enduring interest in Ireland, the first book draws together an interdisciplinary group of academics from across North America and the U.K. (though notably not Northern Ireland itself) to cover such topics as third party intervention, nationali…
Political science (36 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Irish and British Studies (28 works) · Law (27 works) · Politics (25 works) · Law (23 works) · Political economy (20 works) · Irish (17 works) · Northern ireland (16 works) · Economics (15 works)