1st Edition
Borders and Boundaries Historical Perspectives
1 Introduction: The Making and Re-making of Borders
Tomás Finn and Kieran Hoare
2 Limerick c. AD 1200: A frontier city in Europe’s Wild West
Catherine Swift
3 Historical Boundaries and Historic Borders: The Case of Cairpre Dromma Clíabh
Seán Ó Hoireabhárd
4 Urban Oligarchies and Border Society in later medieval Ireland
Kieran Hoare
5 ‘Tudor England’s French Frontier: The Laws of Guînes (1529) and the Defence of the Calais Pale’
Neil Murphy
6 Conquest or recovery: enlarging the English Pale in early Tudor Ireland
Steven Ellis
7 The Final Tudor Frontier: the north-west of Ireland in the late sixteenth century
Christopher Maginn
8 Early Modern Border Management and New Historiographical Approaches
Raingard Esser
9 Building Narratives: Ireland and the Borders of Architectural History
Leslie Herman
10 Protestant Demographic Dynamics in early Twentieth Century Ireland, 1901–26
Barry Keane
11 The Day-to-Day Effects of Partition
Cormac Moore
12 Within an Imaginary Border: The ‘Protestant Free State’ in Independent Ireland
Ian d’Alton
13 Fault Lines of Trade Union Disunity, 1922–1939
Gerard Hanley
14 ‘A peripatetic university for catholic social activists’: John Hayes and the international origins of Muintir na Tire’s ‘Rural Weeks’
Barry Sheppard
15 Beyond the pale? Representations of the Teddy boy subculture in Irish theatre, 1955–1965
Ciara Molloy
16 Politics and the praxis of power: the political establishment and the talented young in post-world war II Ireland
Tomas Finn
17 ‘To Hell or to Connaught’: Margaret Thatcher, Northern Ireland and the Prospect of Repartition, 1979–1990
Stephen Kelly
Biography
Tomás Finn is Lecturer in History at the University of Galway. He has published a book and articles on the role of intellectuals and the influence of ideas in the modernisation of Ireland. These include his monograph Tuairim, Intellectual Debate and Policy Formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954–75.
Kieran Hoare works as an archivist at University of Galway Library. His research interests cover urban studies in later medieval Ireland.
