, Columnist
Brexit or No Brexit, the Irish Border Won't Disappear
The return of a hard line between Ireland and the North would aggravate the tension felt by British Catholics in Northern Ireland.
To be British and Irish Catholic: a comfortable balance threatened by Brexit.
Photographer: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, ‘Thus far shalt thou go and no further.’”
Thus declaimed Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell in 1885. More than a century later, his vision of a free and independent Ireland seems to have stopped Brexit in its tracks.