The report said that Irish unity and the prospect of a border poll is now an area of significant public debate.
It cites, for example, BBC Northern Ireland’s Borderland podcast which reflected views for and against a united Ireland.
The report argues that the Irish language has been treated “as something which must be reconsidered or ‘de-emphasised’, in the event of Irish unity, or offered up as a bargaining chip or a symbolic concession to be negotiated”.
It said that the language has often been “framed as an ‘imposition’ on the unionist community”.
For instance the report said that the former Taoiseach (Irish PM), Leo Varadkar, had “argued for certain ‘concessions’ to accommodate unionists, including ‘de-emphasising the Irish language'”.
As a result, the report argues, the Irish language is often seen as something that should be “curtailed” in a united Ireland.
That includes making learning Irish optional – rather than compulsory – in schools, reducing its role in public life including on street signs and putting Irish on equal footing with English and Ulster-Scots in a new constitution.