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    May 29, 2024 4 minutes

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    Ties that Bind? Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Union Graham Walker & James Greer Newbridge: Irish Academic Press, (2023), pp. 276, Paperback, £16.85, E-book, £9.99

    ISBN: 978 1788558174

    In a recent Northern Ireland Sunday newspaper, a columnist criticised the booing heard at Hampden Park when Scotland faced Northern Ireland and NI’s anthem ‘God Save the King’ was being played. This appears to support some of the central points made in a new book about the two countries, whose history is so intertwined, and the political union that

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