Brendan O'Leary - Seamus Deane Annual Lecture 2022

Political scientist Brendan O'Leary delivers the Annual Seamus Deane Field Day Lecture at the Playhouse in Derry, 3 September 2022.

Titled 'Key Choices in Irish Reunification', the lecture explores and explains the political choices facing populations in both parts of Ireland as demographic shifts seem to be leading towards constitutional change.

The lecture ends at 1h30m and is followed by a Q&A session, chaired by Breandán Mac Suibhne of the University of Galway.

Brendan O'Leary is Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

This lecture was also one of the launch events for Professor O'Leary's book on the subject, Making Sense of a United Ireland, published by Penguin: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448578/mak...