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NON-FICTION
THE RULE OF THE LAND is the story of Ireland’s border and a portrait of its landscape and people. First this three-hundred-mile line demarcated counties, then countries and will next be the frontier of the European Union. It was striking how little Ireland was discussed in the lead-up to the UK referendum on EU membership. You might have thought the border between the UK and the EU was going to be the English Channel. But it won’t be, it’s here, and it’s as thin as wire.
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
MEDIA
I am a frequent contributor to the press and to TV programmes, as well as making radio broadcasts.
Here are pieces I wrote lately for the Guardian, New York Times and the New Statesman.
The half-hour documentary CHARTING THE BORDER was based on my border surveys and the creation of THE MAP OF CONNECTIONS.
Click here to hear CHARTING THE BORDER on BBC Radio 4.
For THE SILENCE AND THE SCREAM I went in search of a radical free-thinking commune which broke the silence of a rural Donegal community in the 1970s.
Short stories written for broadcast include THE ORACLE AT GLENCOLUMBKILLE and HARD STATION. I have also presented a epsiode of The Book Show for RTE.
FICTION
THE BADNESS OF BALLYDOG is an adventure story for young people from nine years and up. Along with my second novel LOST DOGS it was included in reads of the year lists in both The Times and The Irish Independent. DEEP DEEP DOWN completed the trilogy. The books are published by Simon & Schuster. See my page on Amazon or Goodreads.
"A born storyteller"
The Times
"One of the most imaginative debut children's novels I've read in a long time … Carr's writing is a joy – confident, muscular and fearless"
The Irish Independent
"Cracking story"
The Irish Times
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MAPS
Prints of these maps can be purchased on the map page.
THE MAP OF CONNECTIONS 3.1 charts unofficial border crossings: the stepping stones, footbridges and muddy lanes I found when walking the border. More on the map page.
FICTIONAL ULSTER locates Ulster’s fictional places – villages, townlands, mountains and other places invented by writers down through the years. More here.
A VIEW OF THE BORDER is the map that illustrates my book about Ireland's frontier. Prints of this map can also be purchased on the map page.
CURATING
Maps of Northern Ireland are often used to illustrate traditional political divisions, but they conceal a much more nuanced place. This landscape, rural and urban, is much more than a site of conflict. I brought together diverse mapmakers: local historians, activists, artists, geographers and urban planners for a show of maps called
MAPPING ALTERNATIVE ULSTER. It is an exhibition that re-thinks our representation on maps.
From the comments book:
Both fascinating and inspiring ... very impressive, pluralist approach ... It seems the people of Northern Ireland have a special kind of love for their land, and desire to map it ... A wonderful and imaginative exhibiton ...
There's an exhibition website.
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