The U.K. has only one land border with the European Union. But that could be enough to scupper a Brexit deal. How to manage the 310-mile border between Northern Ireland (part of the U.K.) and Ireland ...

A mock customs post is set up at Ravensdale, Co Louth, as anti-Brexit campaigners highlight concerns about the impact on trade, February, 2017. Niall Carson/Press ...

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said in Belfast on Friday that his government wants to be “building bridges not borders” with Northern Ireland as he reiterated his opposition to an economic border ...

The UK’s decision to leave the EU was a seismic shock in Ireland. In the years following the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic had become less ...

The imposition of a customs frontier on the Irish border would "play fast and loose" with both the economy and peace process, Sinn Fein has warned. The republican party dismissed any suggestion trade ...

EU negotiator Michel Barnier says both sides have to accept the "consequences" of Brexit vote UK Brexit minister David Davis says it is a "promising start" Theresa May meets Irish counterpart Reaction ...

In “A Fragile Peace: Inside Brexit and Belfast,” actor and filmmaker Rory Duffy and producer Hyun Joo trace the history of a 30-year conflict, exploring the way the hard-won peace is threatened now by ...

Not for the first time, politicians seem to be making more of the violent public response to an atrocity than they are of the atrocity itself. Violence has erupted across Belfast, with homes and ...

In the decade since the vote to leave the European Union, arguably no issue has consumed more energy, column inches, political capital and careers than how to solve the problem of Northern Ireland. It ...

*Editor's Note: The following essay was written by American University Professors Kimberly Cowell-Meyers and Carolyn A. Gallaher as part of the Irish Institute of Boston College's guest essay series.