Sam McBride & Mark Hennessy: For and Against a United Ireland

With the prospect of Irish unification is stronger than at any point since partition, voters on both sides of the border may soon have to confront what a referendum question would mean. Join Sam McBride, journalist and author of For and Against a United Ireland (co-written with Fintan OToole) andMark Hennessy, Ireland and Britain Editor of The Irish Times and leader of the newspapers Common Ground project, for a fresh discussion of the arguments for and against unity. Chaired by Simon Kingston, founder of the West Cork History Festival.Books available
Signed copies of For and Against a United Ireland bySam McBrideThe Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words 2026 is headline sponsored by Landsec & MYOAccessibility:
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