GARRETT CARR is a writer and map-maker originally from Donegal. His book, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border (Faber & Faber) chronicles his journey along the entirety of the Irish border, weaving history, memoir, maps, and photographs into a timely story. With Brexit and tensions in borderlands around the world, Carr offers a deeply knowledgable perspective on the history - and possible futures - of the Irish borderlands.
“Brexit has done more for the possibility of a united Ireland than the IRA campaign ever came close to achieving.”
Read The Yellow Manifesto: A True Account of a Border and Its People.
Carr is Senior Lecturer in the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast. Read more about him and his work here.
*This episode features “St. John’s Well” from Benjamin Dwyer's imagines obesae et aspect ingratae, a piece for solo viola performed by Garth Knox (New Dublin Press, 2015).