Borders and Boundaries - Historical Perspectives

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Finn is a 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.
Kieran Hoare works as an archivist at University of Galway Library. His research interests cover urban studies in later medieval Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Tomas Hoare Finn
• Assisted by: Tomás Finn (Editor), Kieran Hoare (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032691862
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269186-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Colonialism & imperialism, Medieval History, British & Irish history, Colonialism and imperialism, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General