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Author Nash, Catherine, author

Title Partitioned lives : the Irish borderlands / by Catherine Nash, Brian Graham, and Bryonie Reid
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (157 pages)
Series Heritage, culture, and identity
Heritage, culture, and identity
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
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 1950s 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Borderlands -- Ireland
Borderlands -- Northern Ireland
Historical geography.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland.
Borderlands
Historical geography
Politics and government
SUBJECT Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068046
Northern Ireland -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092560
Ireland -- History -- Partition, 1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003297
Subject Ireland
Northern Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012047424
ISBN 9781409466734
1409466736
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9781299712317
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9781317083689
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