Monday, 16 June, 2014 John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, UCD 

9.00am Registration 

9.30am – 10.00am 

OPENING ADDRESS: TANAISTE AND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE, MR EAMON GILMORE, TD 

10.00am – 11.30am 

Session 1: Public Opinion: The Continuing Salience of the South in the North?  

Chair: HE Mr Dominick Chilcott (British Embassy) 

Voting Behaviour under Consociational Conditions 

John Garry (Queens University Belfast) 

Fusing Protestantism with Pragmatism? The Membership of the Democratic Unionist Party 

Jon Tonge (University of Liverpool) 

11.30am – 12.00pm Tea/Coffee Break 

12.00pm – 1.30pm 

Session 2: Institutional Linkages and Networks 

Chair: Justice Catherine McGuinness 

North-South Institutions: Mainstreaming Gender Equality? 

Yvonne Galligan (Queens University Belfast) 

Different Pathways – Shared Interests: Women’s Activism in Ireland, North and South 

Melanie Hoewer (University College Dublin) 

1.30pm – 2.30pm Lunch Break 

2.30pm – 4.30pm 

Session 3: Constitutional and Cultural Divisions: Contextualising the Current Conjuncture  

Chair: Mr Gerry Moriarty (Irish Times) 

Adjusting to Partition: Nationalist Opinion and the Future of the Irish Border 

John Coakley (University College Dublin) 

Where are we? 

Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania) 

Modelling Conflict and Instability in Both Parts of (the Island of) Ireland 

Joseph Ruane (University College Cork / University College Dublin) 

4.30pm – 5.30pm 

Roundtable: North-South after the May 2014 Elections  

Roundtable participants/discussants: Niall O Dochartaigh (NUI Galway) and others TBC 

5.30pm Conference Close and Reception