The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
Diarmaid Ferriter
For the past two decades, you could cross the Ulster border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland half a dozen times without noticing or, indeed, without turning off the road you were travelling. It cuts through fields, winds back-and-forth across roads, and wends from the mouth of the Newry River to the mouth of the Foyle. It's frictionless – a feat made possible by the Good Friday Agreement. Before that, watchtowers loomed over border communities, military checkpoints dotted the roads, and bridges had been demolished to prevent crossings. This is a past that most are happy to have left behind, but a return to something like it may also be in the future.
The border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been a topic of dispute for over a century, first in Dublin, Belfast, and Westminster, and now, post referendum, in Brussels. Diarmaid Ferriter charts its history from the divisive Government of Ireland Act 1920, through the 1922 formal partition (a year after the Anglo-Irish Treaty), and its aftermath, then 'the Troubles' and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, up to the Brexit negotiations of the late 2010s. With the fate of the boundary uncertain, The Border is a timely investigation into one of the most contentious and misunderstood political issues of our time.
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Рік:
2019
Видання:
1.
Видавництво:
Profile Books
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
192
ISBN 10:
1788161785
ISBN 13:
9781788161787
Файл:
EPUB, 516 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2019
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