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Unapproved routes : histories of the Irish border, 1922-1972 /

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While 'the border question' raged throughout twentieth-century Ireland, citizens near the border continued with everyday life. Peter Leary uses histories of the Foyle Fisheries dispute, cockfighting tournaments, smuggling, and local conflicts over cross-border roads to explore how the bord...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leary, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ireland > History > 1922-
Ireland > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Ireland > Boundaries > History.
Irlande > Histoire > 1922-
Irlande > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Ireland.
Ireland
Grenze
Irland
Nordirland
Irlande > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Irlande > Frontières > Histoire.
Since 1922
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Time of partition and the power of space in the evidence presented to the Irish Boundary Commission, 1925
  • 2. 'The big fish and the little fellow': Property and territory on Lough and River Foyle
  • 3. Cocks, cops, and writing men: 'Deep play' on the Irish border
  • 4. Smuggling: A border perspective on society, culture, and authority
  • 5. Border-crossing roads: Material culture at the limits of governmentality.