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Peter Leary is a vice chancellor’s fellow in History at Oxford Brookes University and author of Unapproved routes: histories of the Irish border, 1922–72 (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize. His articles on the Irish border have appeared in various publications, including History Workshop Journal, Folklore and the Guardian.