Beguiling Constitutional Narratives 6 🪶 “Constitutional Change” Without Constitutional Change

Mike Burke ✍ On opening Lisa Claire Whitten’s paper Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland (2023a), I looked forward to seeing new arguments or fresh evidence on the union-unity debate. I was quickly disabused of such presuppositions. In the introduction to the paper, Whitten, a research fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, notes that while the normal meaning of