The British–Irish Council and Devolution

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ID6266982
AuthorsVernon Bogdanor (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume34
Issue3
Pages287-298
Publication date1999-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGovernment and Opposition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00482.x
OpenAlexW2093390480
LanguageEN
Citations received9

THE BRITISH-IRISH COUNCIL SPRINGS FROM AND IS PROVIDED FOR IN the Belfast Agreement signed on Good Friday 1998. Its coming into force depends upon the implementation of the Agreement. The Council is established, however, not by the 1998 Northern Ireland Act, which gives legislative expression to the bulk of this Agreement, but by an international treaty, the British–Irish Agreement, attached to the Belfast Agreement.The Belfast Agreement together with the legislation providing for devolution to Scotland and Wales establishes a new constitutional settlement, both among the nations which form the United Kingdom, and also between those nations and the other nation in these islands, the Irish nation. The United Kingdom itself is, as a result of the Scotland Act and the Government of Wales Act, in the process of becoming a new union of nations, each with its own identity and institutions – a multi-national state, rather than, as many of the English have traditionally seen it, a homogeneous British nation containing a variety of different people

Archaeology · Devolution (biology · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Irish · Legislation · Legislature · Northern ireland · Political science · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State (computer science · Treaty · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Scottish History and National Identity

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