The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border
- Submitting institution
-
Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 135663906
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN
- 978-0-571-31335-8
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Carr began exhibiting maps of the border in 2008 and walked (or canoed) the entire length, believing he needed to witness it fully to best represent it. Carr wanted the book to have a polymathic quality, which meant researching many areas including archaeology, geology, history, border culture and politics. The 300-page illustrated book was published by Faber, serialised by BBC Radio 4 and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolmen award. Fintan O’Toole, writing in the Guardian, named it among the five books to understand Ireland’s border. Carr was invited to discuss it for TV, radio and in the press globally.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -