We are delighted to announce that Historical Studies XXIX based on the proceedings of the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians has been published.
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Abstract:
This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland.
Borders and Boundaries features selected papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians held by the University of Galway in May 2021 on the theme of ‘Borders and Boundaries’. It covers the medieval to the contemporary, allowing a long view to be taken of the north-west border of Ireland, the borders of the early modern state, the impact of the partition of Ireland and social boundaries in the late twentieth century. It aims to stimulate debate and highlight how borders can be written out of history while remaining essential to comprehending the making and remaking of our worlds.
This volume will be of value for those interested in border studies, Irish history and modern history.
Table of Contents:
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