Borders and Boundaries

This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland.

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.

1 Introduction Tomás Finn and Kieran Hoare 2 Limerick c. AD 1200 - A frontier city in Europe's Wild West' Catherine Swift Seán Ó Hoireabhárd 4 Urban Oligarchies and Border Society in later medieval Ireland' Kieran Hoare 5 The 1525 Laws of Guînes, the defence of the Calais Pale and the re-emergence of English colonialism Neil Murphy 6 Conquest or restoration: extending the English Pale in early Tudor Ireland Steven Ellis 7 The Final Tudor Frontier: the north-west of Ireland Chris Maginn 8 "Good fences make good neighbours"? Borders and their management in early modern times Raingard Esser 9 Building Narratives: Ireland and the Borders of Architectural History Leslie Herman 10 The boundaries of Protestant Sex before 1916: Abstracts from the 1901 and 1911 census data Barry Keane 11 The Day-to-Day Effects of Partition Cormac Moore within independent Ireland after 1922' Ian d'Alton Gerard Hanley the international origins of Muintir na Tire's 'Rural Weeks' Barry Sheppard in Irish theatre, 1955-1965 Ciara Molloy and the talented young in post WWII Ireland Tomas Finn 17 Margaret Thatcher, partition and the Irish border, 1979-1990 Stephen Kelly