The Rule of the Land
Subtitle: Walking Ireland's Border
By: Garrett Carr
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780571313358
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social life and customs; Walking; Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - Social life and customs; Description and travel; Travel; Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - Boundaries - History; Boundaries; Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - Description and travel; Walking - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland); Carr, Garrett, 1975- - Travel - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland); History
Description: 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 -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Border Interpretive Centre; title: Lighthouses, Vikings; title: Loving, Killing; title: A Pass, a Chair, a Fort; title: Camera Mountains, Slieve Gullion; title: Farmers; title: Checkpoints, Customs; title: Landlords, Tenants; title: Highs, Lows; title: A Boy Racer, a Buster, a Hotel; title: A peak, a Pot, a Tunnel; title: Relics; title: Romance, Break-ups; title: Walls, Ways; title: Rejection, Perfection; title: Lost, Found; title: Forgetting, Remembering; title: This World, the next; title: Home, Castle, Empire; title: Bars.