Subject: Re: re. IE/GB
Date: Jun 17, 2000 @ 15:08
Author: Bill Hanrahan ("Bill Hanrahan" <hanrahan@...>)
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For anyone interested in the books that Martin refers to, I finally
located "Bad Blood" from a UK bookseller; total cost plus shipping is
GBP 8.50. (It doesn't seem to be in print in the U.S.) "Puckoon" is
available from Amazon.com, among others.

Bill

--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, m.a.pratt@d... wrote:
> Greetings. I have posted in the list's 'files' section the text of
a
> short article from the International Boundaries Research Unit's
> Boundary & Security Bulletin which describes the ill-fated work of
> the 1925 Irish Boundary Commission, which I hope sheds some light
on
> the reasons why the Republic of Ireland-UK boundary remains poorly
> defined to this day.
>
> For a fascinating insight into the nature of the boundary and its
> surroundings I highly recommend Colm Toibin's "Bad Blood", a
> travelogue based on a walk along the border in the early 1990s. For
> an irreverent and often-hilarious fictional account of the
> consequences of partition on a border village, look no further than
> Spike Milligan's "Puckoon".
>
> Regards,
>
> m a r t i n
>
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> International Boundaries Research Unit
> Mountjoy Research Centre, Suite 3P
> University of Durham
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>
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