Screen LibraryThe rule of the land : walking Ireland's border /
In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to become the frontier with the European Union. Over the past year, Garrett Carr has travelled this border, on foot and by canoe, to uncover a landscape with a troubled past and...
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Faber & Faber,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to become the frontier with the European Union. Over the past year, Garrett Carr has travelled this border, on foot and by canoe, to uncover a landscape with a troubled past and an uncertain future. Across this thinly populated line, travelling down hidden pathways and among ancient monuments, Carr encounters a variety of characters who have made this liminal space their home. He reveals the turbulent history of this landscape and changes the way we look at nationhood, land a |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780571313358 (paperback) : 0571313353 (paperback) 9780571313372 (paperback) 057131337X (paperback) 9780571313365 (ePub ebook) 0571313361 (ePub ebook) |
| Index Number: | DA990 |
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K956.19 K956.29 |
| Call Number: | K956.29/C311 |
| Contents: | The Border Interpretive Centre -- Lighthouses, Vikings -- Loving, Killing -- A Pass, a Chair, a Fort -- Camera Mountains, Slieve Gullion -- Farmers -- Checkpoints, Customs -- Landlords, Tenants -- Highs, Lows -- A Boy Racer, a Buster, a Hotel -- A peak, a Pot, a Tunnel -- Relics -- Romance, Break-ups -- Walls, Ways -- Rejection, Perfection -- Lost, Found -- Forgetting, Remembering -- This World, the next -- Home, Castle, Empire -- Bars. |