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Commuting across the Irish border

Economics Letters, 2020
Abstract The border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is often characterised as ‘invisible’. Using data drawn from censuses in both jurisdictions, we show a substantial discontinuity in commuting behaviour at the Irish border. Residents on both sides of the border have a low propensity to work on the other side.
Achim Ahrens, John FitzGerald, Seán Lyons   +2 more
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The Irish Border

2020
Abstract This chapter focuses on Northern Ireland, a jurisdiction within the UK acutely affected by the nature of the Brexit debate and the process. It is a contested region that is divided along ethno-national lines and still emerging from a violent conflict.
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Borderation: Fictions of the Northern Irish Border

2020
This chapter examines the impact on recent Irish fiction of the border dividing British Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic, ‘the most militarised border in the archipelago’. This border is deplored as a spatial heresy by Irish nationalists who envision a united Ireland, but defended as an orthodoxy by Unionists who insist on their political ...
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Generations on the Border: Changes in Ethno-national Identity in the Irish Border Area

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2006
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in 2004/2005, this article explores the construal, change and redefinition of ethno-national identity in Ireland's Eastern border counties. Focusing on the structural properties of generational positions that simultaneously enable and constrain individuals’ construal of identity, we analyze changes in the ...
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Nathalie Rougier
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The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape

2012
State borders are commonly understood to be lines that divide economic, political, social and cultural landscapes. Those divisions are informed by distinctions made between ‘self’ and ‘other’, ‘us’ and ‘them’, ‘here’ and ‘there’, ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, and ‘include’ and ‘exclude’.
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Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border

2011
Stories may begin as entertainment, but in fact they can actually portray change in the way of life. Through careful ethnographic observation, Cashman (English and folklore, Ohio State Univ.) uses stories to capture life in Aghyaran, a small town on the northern Irish border.
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Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish Between England and America

Journal of Early Modern History, 1999
AbstractHistorians of early modern Ireland have often been rather too monolithic in their readings of representations of Ireland and the Irish. Many commentators now insist that Ireland has to be viewed in terms of British or European developments.
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Sport, Identity, and the People of the Irish Border Lands

New Hibernia Review, 2006
Among the border people of Northern Ireland?mostly members of the minor ity Catholic community?the most popular cultural pastime is sport, specifically Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie. These and other sports play a role in the construction of a unique identity for this section of Irish society.
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The creation and consolidation of the Irish border

2010
Paper first presented at the Mapping frontiers, plotting path-ways (MFPP) workshop in Queen’s University Belfast on 1 October 2004.
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Brexit and the challenges of the Irish border

2019
Northern Ireland voted against Brexit, with a shorter majority than Scotland. However, Brexit is bound to happen. Although European integration has played an important role in mitigating the border effects with the Republic of Ireland in the context of a post conflict symbolic reconciliation, the Brexit negotiations have raised a very thorny issue: can
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