Unapproved Routes - Leary, Peter (Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History, Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History, St Hugh's College, Oxford)

While 'the border question' raged throughout twentieth-century Ireland, citizens near the border continued with everyday life. Peter Leary uses histories of the Foyle Fisheries dispute, cockfighting tournaments, smuggling, and local conflicts over cross-border roads to explore how the border was experienced and incorporated into people's lives.