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Public Opinion and the Anglo-Irish Agreement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2019

W. Harvey Cox
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This article brings together a number of opinion surveys conducted in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the aftermath of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough on 15 November 1985. In addition the fifteen by-elections of 23 January 1986 in Northern Ireland are treated as the referendum they were claimed to be by Unionists, and a brief assessment is given of the role played by the Agreement in the Irish Republic's general election of February 1987.

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Political Implications of US-EC Economic Conflicts (III)
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Government and Opposition , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1987 , pp. 336 - 351
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1987

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References

1 Lyons, F. S. L., Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, Oxford University Press. 1979, p. 1.Google Scholar

2 The group of tables. A, is derived from opinion surveys undertaken in the signing of the Hillsborough Agreement. These were polls for the BBC and the Belfast Telegraph (BT), both January 1986, and the Market Research Bureau of Ireland (MRBI) poll for the Irish Times (IT), 12 February 1986.

3 See e.g., MarGriel, M., Prejudice and Tolerance in Ireland, Dublin, College of Industrial Relations, 1977.Google Scholar

4 Irish Times, 22 May 1984. See also Cax, W. Harvey, ‘Who Wants United Ireland?’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 20 No. 1, Winter 1985.Google Scholar

5 The Guardian, 6 December 1985

6 Irish Times, 5 February 1987.

7 Richard Rose. et. al., Is there a concurring majority about Northern Ireland?, Studio in Public Policy, Straihclyde, 1978.

8 New Society, 24 September 1981.

9 The Guardian, 7 April 1986.

10 The Guardian, 26 May 1986.