Hard Border - Walking Through a Century of Partition

Hard Border goes to the very roots of the Irish boundary where, after decades of division and conflict, a fragile peace has prevailed since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Post-Brexit, it will re-emerge as the only land frontier between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

About the author

Darach MacDonald has been a professional journalist since 1976, working throughout Ireland, Europe and in Canada and closing his full-time newspaper career as editor of the award-winning Ulster Herald. In 2015, he was conferred with a PhD by Ulster University (Magee) for research on a frontier Ulster loyalist marching band, having completed his MA thesis on the Irish Boundary Commission almost forty years previously at University College Dublin. He is the author of four previous books: The Sons of Levi (1998); The Chosen Fews: Exploding Myths in South Armagh (2000); Blood & Thunder: Inside an Ulster Protestant Band (2010); and Töchar: Walking Ireland's Ancient Pilgrim Paths (2013). A native of Clones, a proud father and very soon-to-be grandfather, he now lives in the border city of Derry.

Product details

• Authors: Darach Macdonald
• Publisher: New Island Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2018
• EAN: 9781848406759
• ISBN: 978-1-84840-675-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales