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Selective Irish Border Bibliography

Anderson, J. (1994) ‘Problems of Inter-State Economic Integration: Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic in the European Community’, Political Geography 13 (1): 53-72

Anderson, J. and Goodman, J. (1997) ‘Problems of North-South Economic Integration and Politics in Ireland: Southern Perspectives’, Irish Journal of Sociology 7: 29-52

Anderson, J. and Hamilton, D. (2002) ‘Transnational Democracy versus National Conflict: Border Crossings in Ireland’, in J.

Anderson (ed) (2002) Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings, Routledge: London and New York, 129-148

Anderson, J. and O’Dowd, L. (1999) ‘Contested Borders: Globalization and Ethnonational Conflict in Ireland’, Regional Studies 33 (7): 681-696

Anderson, J. and O’Dowd, L. (2007) ‘Imperialism and nationalism: The Home Rule struggle and border creation in Ireland, 1885–1925’, Political Geography, 26(8): 934-950

Anderson, J., O’Dowd, L. and Wilson, T. M. (2001) ‘Cross-Border Co-operation in Ireland: A New Era?’, Administration 49 (2): 6-14

Anderson, M. and Bort, E. (1999) ‘Change and the Irish Border: An Introduction’, in M. Anderson and E. Bort (eds) The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 15-40

Anderson, M. and Bort, E. (eds) (1999) The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Coakley, J. and O’Dowd, L. (eds.) (2007) Crossing the Border: New Relationships between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Dublin: Irish Academic Press

Coakley, J. and O’Dowd, L. (2007) ‘The transformation of the Irish Border’, Political Geography 26: 877-885

Donnan, H. (1999) ‘Shopping and Sectarianism at the Irish border’, in M. Rosler and T. Wendl (eds) Frontiers and Borderlands: Anthropological Perspectives, Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 101-116

Harris, R. (1972) Prejudice and Tolerance in Ulster: A Study of Neighbours and ‘Strangers’in a Border Community, Manchester: Manchester University Press

Harvey, B., Kelly, A., McGearty, S. and Murray, S. (2005) The Emerald Curtain: The Social Impact of the Irish Border, Carrickmacross: Triskele Community Training and Development

Hassan, D. (2006) ‘Sport, Identity, and the People of the Irish Border Lands’, New Hibernia Review, 10(2): 26-43

Heslinga, M. W. (1971 [1962]) The Irish border as a cultural divide, Assen: Van Gorcum

Kennedy, M. (2000) Division and Consensus: The Politics of Irish Cross-Border Relations, 1925-1969, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.

Logue, P. (ed) (1999) The Border: Personal Reflections from Ireland, North and South, Dublin: Oak Tree Press

McCall, C. (2002) ‘From Barrier to Bridge: Reconfiguring the Irish Border After the Belfast Good Friday Agreement’, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 53 (4): 479-494

O’Dowd, L. and Corrigan, J. (1995) ‘Buffer Zone or Bridge: Local Responses to Cross-border Economic Co-operation in the Irish Border Region’, Administration 42 (4): 335-51

O’Dowd, L. and Corrigan, J. (1996) ‘Securing the Irish Border in a Europe without Frontiers’, in L. O’Dowd and T. M. Wilson (eds) Borders, Nations and States: Frontiers of Sovereignty in the New Europe, Aldershot: Avebury, 117-134

Pollak, A. (2001) ‘The Policy Agenda for Cross-Border Co-operation : A View from the Centre for Cross-Border Studies’, Administration 49 (2): 15-22

Rankin, K. J, (2007) ‘Deducing rationales and political tactics in the partitioning of Ireland, 1912-1925’, Political Geography, 26: 909-933.

Rankin, K. J. (2008) ‘The role of the Irish boundary commission in the entrenchment of the Irish border: from tactical panacea to political liability’, Journal of Historical Geography, 34: 422-447

Tóibín, C. (1994) Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, London: Vintage. First published 1987.

Turner, B. (ed.) (2002) The Debateable Land: Ireland’s Border Counties, Downpatrick: Ulster Local History Trust.

Wilson, T. M. (1993) ‘Frontiers Go But Boundaries Remain: The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide’, in Thomas M. Wilson and M. Estellie Smith (eds) Cultural Change and the New Europe: Perspectives on the European Community, Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press

Wilson, T. M. (1994) ‘Symbolic Dimensions to the Irish Border’, in H. Donnan and T. M. Wilson (eds) Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives on Frontiers, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 101-118

Wilson, T. M. (2000) ‘Agendas in Conflict: Nation, State and Europe in the Northern Irish Borderlands’, in I. Bellier and T. M. Wilson (eds) An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe, Oxford: Berg Publishers

Nash, C., Reid, B. and Graham, B. J (2013) Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands, Farnham. Ashgate.