Table of Contents

1. Irish approaches to European integration - Michael Holmes; 2. The economic challenge of enlargement - Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan; 3. EU environmental policy and Ireland - Bernadette Connaughton; 4. Europe and Ireland's changing security policy - Nicholas Rees; 5. The development of opposition to European integration in Ireland - Michael Holmes; 6. Irish public opinion and the new Europe - John Coakley; 7. Ireland's European discourse and the nationalforum on Europe - John O'Brennan; 8. Ireland and the convention on the future of Europe - Anna Verges Bausili; 9. Northern Ireland and the future of Europe debate - Mary C. Murphy and David Phinnemore; 10. Ireland's management of European business: The impact of Nice - Brigid Laffan; 11. Ireland and the future of Europe - Michael Holmes and Nicholas Rees; Index

About the Author

Michael Holmes is Director of European Studies and Head of the Irish Studies Research Group in Liverpool Hope University College.