The Flag That Doesn't Exist Yet?

As part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2025.

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Should Northern Ireland, or Ireland, have a new flag? David Michell and Etain Tannam (Peace Studies) explore this long-debated idea. A timely conversation on identity, representation, and national symbols.

David Mitchell is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, and Coordinator of the MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. He is co-author of Peace and Conflict in a Changing World (Palgrave, 2024) and author of Politics and Peace in Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2015), as well as many book chapters and journal articles on political change in Northern Ireland. This talk is based on his recent essay, 'The Flag that Does not Exist - Yet? Imagining a new Symbol in Northern Ireland', in The Political Quarterly which argues for a new, shared flag in the North.

Etain Tannam is Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub and Associate Professor of International Peace Studies at Trinity’s School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies. She is the author of British-Irish Relations in the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2024), and her research focuses on British-Irish relations, the Belfast/Good-Friday Agreement, and cross border (North-South) cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

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