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Open Country: Border Country

Border Country

23/11/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Border Country

As Brexit gathers pace, Helen Mark explores the landscape of the Irish border.

Helen Mark discovers the places and people of the Irish borderlands. Brexit has put this border in the headlines but behind the line on a map is a fascinating landscape and history.

The Irish border is currently the focus of intense negotiations around Brexit. Nobody knows how a soft or hard Brexit will work in practise but most agree that a hard border will negatively affect both the economies and relationships of the Republic and Northern Ireland. Helen Mark delves beneath the politics to discover the wildness of the land along the border and talks to the people who live there and cross the border daily. The border has inspired artists and writers such as Garrett Carr and Rita Duffy and Helen meets them to explore the borderlands and try to understand the unique history of the places along the line from Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.

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