UCC Online Jean Monnet Lecture Series 'Brexit on the Peace Line: A Community Activist’s Perspective' by Eileen Weir

2 Apr 2022

Department of Government and Politics 

UCC Jean Monnet Lecture Series 

ALL WELCOME

IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAMING 

Brexit on the Peace Line:

A Community Activist’s Perspective

Eileen Weir

Shankill Women’s Centre

3-4pm Thursday 7 April 2022 

CACSSS Seminar Room 

(Room G27, O’Rahilly Building) 

Register here  

Eileen Weir is the Network Co-ordinator with the Shankill Women's Centre in Belfast. The Centre was formed in 1987 and is located in a disadvantaged ward in North Belfast. Eileen first volunteered with the Centre in the late 1990s, later becoming an outreach worker. She played an important role in ensuring that largely under-represented voices were heard during the peace talks leading to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Eileen also worked with prisoners released early under the Agreement helping them to integrate back into society, to secure employment and to adapt to family life. In 2018, Eileen was awarded the Community Relations Exceptional Achievement Award for promoting community relations, intercultural work and peace-building in Northern Ireland.

The UCC Jean Monnet Lecture series is supported by the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet programme. 

For more on this story contact:

Dr Mary C. Murphy

Senior Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork

Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration 

President, Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies www.iaces.ie