The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically
reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of
Ireland. For those who lived in close quarters with the border,
partition was also an intimate and personal occurrence, profoundly
implicated in everyday lives. Otherwise mundane activities such as
shopping, visiting family, or travelling to church were often
complicated by customs restrictions, security policies, and even
questions of nationhood and identity. The border became an
interface, not just of two jurisdictions, but also between the
public, political space of state territory, and the private,
familiar spaces of daily life. The effects of political disunity
were combined and intertwined with a degree of unity of everyday
social life that persisted and in some ways even flourished across,
if not always within, the boundaries of both states. On the border,
the state was visible to an uncommon degree - as uniformed agents,
road blocks, and built environment - at precisely the same point as
its limitations were uniquely exposed. For those whose worlds
continued to transcend the border, the power and hegemony of either
of those states, and the social structures they conditioned, could
only ever be incomplete. As a consequence, border residents lived
in circumstances that were burdened by inconvenience and
imposition, but also endowed with certain choices. Influenced by
microhistorical approaches, Unapproved Routes uses a series of
discrete 'histories' - of the Irish Boundary Commission, the Foyle
Fisheries dispute, cockfighting tournaments regularly held on the
border, smuggling, and local conflicts over cross-border roads - to
explore how the border was experienced and incorporated into
people's lives; emerging, at times, as a powerfully revealing site
of popular agency and action.
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