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The Rule of the Land : Walking Ireland's Border /

By: Carr, Garrett, 1975- [author.].
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2017Description: vii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780571313358; 9780571313358:; 0571313353; 9780571313372; 057131337X.Subject(s): Carr, Garrett, 1975- -- Travel -- Northern Ireland -- Ireland | Carr, Garrett, 1975- -- Travel -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) | Walking | Borderlands -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) | Walking -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) | Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Boundaries -- History | Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Description and travel | Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 914.160483 CAR
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.
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 and power. The book incorporates Carr's own maps and photographs.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 914.160483 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0082062
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-308) and index.

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.

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 and power. The book incorporates Carr's own maps and photographs.

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