A liminal space occupies a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. Northern Ireland occupies a liminal space between two different states. It occupies a world in which Brexit can happen, causing deep coordination problems and indeed imperiling the Good Friday Agreement at different points, and where Covid can happen, causing a deeply suboptimal response on a single island from two different jurisdictions. The confluence of Covid and Brexit has forced the resolution of this liminality back into the public consciousness once again.  When we think about Northern Ireland, there is a danger of thinking in…

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