{"id":2403,"date":"2020-09-21T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:02:00","slug":"prof-cochrane-discusses-impact-of-the-dup-over-the-past-four-years-on-irish-politics-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/21\/prof-cochrane-discusses-impact-of-the-dup-over-the-past-four-years-on-irish-politics-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Cochrane discusses impact of the DUP over the past four years on Irish politics in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life truly is stranger than fiction but as odd as it might seem, the DUP has done more over the last four years to promote Irish republican objectives than Sinn F\u00e9in has achieved in several decades &#8211; one of the many ironic outcomes of the whole Brexit saga.<\/p>\n<p>The DUP was initially quite pragmatic about Brexit and allowed a free vote within the party in the 2016 referendum. However, once the result came down in favour of the UK leaving the EU, the DUP became ardent supporters of Brexit and seemed to have the ear of the British government after the 2017 general election, giving them significant influence over it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/507\/cochrane-feargal\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Professor Feargal Cochrane\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">has spoken with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northernirelandnews\/2020\/09\/21\/news\/feargal-cochrane-dup-has-done-more-in-four-years-to-promote-irish-republican-objectives-than-sinn-fe-in-achieved-in-decades-2072558\/\">Irish News<\/a>\u00a0on<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0the themes of his new book &#8216;Breaking Peace&#8217; and the impact of the DUP over the past four years in Irish politics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life truly is stranger than fiction but as odd as it might seem, the DUP has done more over the last four years to promote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/21\/prof-cochrane-discusses-impact-of-the-dup-over-the-past-four-years-on-irish-politics-in-new-book\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}