Partitioned lives : the Irish borderlands / Catherine Nash, Bryonie Reid, Brian Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Catherine.

Contributor:

Reid, Bryonie.

Graham, Brian.

Series:

Heritage, culture, and identity.

Heritage, culture and identity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Ireland.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Northern Ireland.

Historical geography.

Ireland--Politics and government--1922-.

Ireland.

Northern Ireland--Politics and government.

Northern Ireland.

Ireland--History--Partition, 1921.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands explores everyday life and senses of identity and belonging along a contested border whose official functions and local impacts have shifted across the twentieth century. It does so through the accounts of contemporary borderland residents in Ireland and Northern Ireland who share their reflections on and experiences of the border from the 1950's to the present day. Drawing on recent approaches within historical, political and cultural geography and the cross-disciplinary field of border studies, this book explores the Irish border in terms of its meanin

Contents:

Partitioned lives: introduction

Partition: political origins, historical geographies, and the making of the Irish border

Relative calm: borderland life in the 1950s and 1960s

The troubles, the border and borderlands, 1969-1995

After the troubles: reconfiguring the border and border identities

Afterword.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59955-4

1-317-08368-7

1-317-08367-9

1-4094-6673-6

9781315599557

OCLC:

1027160999