BORDERLANDS: STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRESS DEPICTIONS OF THE BORDER BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND THE STATE OF NORTHERN IRELAND

Figures & data

Fig. 1. Irish Boundary Commission, Boundary changes recommended in Southern Fermanagh close-up, 1925.

Fig. 2. Border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on the road to Belfast from Dublin, c.1950 (Getty Images).

Fig. 3. The Murray House at Gortineddan on the Fermanagh-Cavan border Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.

Source: Ireland’s Right to Unity: the case stated by the All-Party Anti-Partition Conference, Dublin: 1951.

Fig. 4. Tweet showing the border between Northern Ireland the Republic of Ireland, August 2019. Permission from Mark Sugrue.

Fig. 5. Photographer: Terence Spencer; Journalist: Bill McWhirter ‘Corporal Bell, IRA target,’ LIFE magazine, 18th February 1972, volume 72, No.6, pp. 30–33.

Fig. 6. ‘Irish featherweight boxer Barry McGuigan in his hometown of clones, Ireland, 1984. He is posing astride the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland’ (photo by Michael Brennan/Getty images).

Fig. 7. ‘Pacemaker ltd. 23/11/1987, an Irish army soldier pictured in a dug out along the South Armagh border today during the massive cross border security operation in search of IRA arms and explosives’. Image credit: Pacemaker Press International.

Fig. 8. British army checkpoint, Northern Ireland, 1989.

Source: Author’s Collection

Fig. 9. Kate Nolan, Pettigo Bridge, LACUNA (2015–2022).

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