nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230405-070121-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230404s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230405-070121-0 doi eng 342 23 Nic Shuibhne, Niamh Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-2603-8053 In Law as in Life? - The (Legally) Divergent Paths of British and Irish Membership of the EU Nic Shuibhne, Niamh Verfassungsblog 2023-04-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On New Year’s Day in 2002, my late uncle, visiting us in Kerry at the time, walked to the local shop and came back with a pristine €5 note for everyone in the house. Spend it, keep it, do whatever you like with it; but this, he said, is history. Ireland adopting the euro as its currency marked one of the most significant divergent choices in the history of British and Irish membership of the European Union. The dense and complicated ties between the two states were otherwise reflected in so many ways across their EU membership profiles, from their coterminous application paths to shared exemptions from certain legal obligations. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU Membership European Union Ever Closer Union Ireland United Kingdom Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/in-law-as-in-life/ raw object