Borders and Boundaries

Tomás Finn is Lecturer in History at the University of Galway. He has published a book and articles on the role of intellectuals and the influence of ideas in the modernisation of Ireland. These include his monograph Tuairim, Intellectual Debate and Policy Formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954–75.Kieran Hoare works as an archivist at University of Galway Library. His research interests cover urban studies in later medieval Ireland.

• 1 Introduction Tomás Finn and Kieran Hoare2 Limerick c. AD 1200 – A frontier city in Europe’s Wild West’ Catherine Swift3 Territorial changes in late pre-invasion Ireland’ Seán Ó Hoireabhárd4 Urban Oligarchies and Border Society in later medieval Ireland’ Kieran Hoare5 The 1525 Laws of Guînes, the defence of the Calais Pale and the re-emergence of English colonialismNeil Murphy6 Conquest or restoration: extending the English Pale in early Tudor Ireland Steven Ellis7 The Final Tudor Frontier: the north-west of Ireland Chris Maginn8 "Good fences make good neighbours"? Borders and their management in early modern timesRaingard Esser9 Building Narratives: Ireland and the Borders of Architectural History Leslie Herman10 The boundaries of Protestant Sex before 1916: Abstracts from the 1901 and 1911 census dataBarry Keane11 The Day-to-Day Effects of Partition Cormac Moore12 ‘No border? The idea of the ‘Protestant Free State’ within independent Ireland after 1922’Ian d’Alton13 Fault Lines of Trade Union Disunity, 1922-1939 Gerard Hanley14 ‘‘A peripatetic university of social ideas’ –John Hayes and the international origins of Muintir na Tire’s ‘Rural Weeks’Barry Sheppard15 Beyond the pale? Representations of the Teddy boy subculture in Irish theatre, 1955-1965Ciara Molloy16 Politics and the praxis of power: the political establishment and the talented young in post WWII IrelandTomas Finn17 Margaret Thatcher, partition and the Irish border, 1979-1990 Stephen Kelly