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Unapproved Routes : Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972, EPUB eBook

Unapproved Routes : Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972 EPUB

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The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of Ireland.

For those who lived in close quarters with the border, partition was also an intimate and personal occurrence, profoundly implicated in everyday lives.

Otherwise mundane activities such as shopping, visiting family, or travelling to church were often complicated by customs restrictions, security policies, and even questions ofnationhood and identity.

The border became an interface, not just of two jurisdictions, but also between the public, political space of state territory, and the private, familiar spaces of daily life. The effects of political disunity were combined and intertwined with a degree of unity of everyday social life that persisted and in some ways even flourished across, if not always within, the boundaries of both states.

On the border, the state was visible to an uncommon degree — as uniformed agents, road blocks, and built environment — at precisely the same point as its limitations were uniquely exposed.

For those whose worlds continued to transcend the border, the power and hegemony ofeither of those states, and the social structures they conditioned, could only ever be incomplete.

As a consequence, border residents lived in circumstances that were burdened by inconvenience and imposition, but also endowed with certain choices. Influenced by microhistorical approaches, Unapproved Routes uses a series of discrete 'histories' — of the Irish Boundary Commission, the Foyle Fisheries dispute, cockfighting tournaments regularly held on the border, smuggling, and local conflicts over cross-border roads — to explore how the border was experienced and incorporated into people's lives; emerging, at times, as a powerfully revealing site of popular agency and action.

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