Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) Journal, Vol. 6 No. 2, Perspectives on the Irish Border (edited by Sandra Heinen, Sylvie Mikowski, Lance Pettitt, Katharina Rennhak)

RISE 6.2 offers new perspectives on the Irish border. Bringing together contributions from different disciplines and cultural fields history, political science, film studies, constitutional law and the theatre it seeks to provide a multifaceted and complex discussion of a phenomenon that is all too often simplified in the political discourse before and after the 2016 Brexit referendum. Following the agenda suggested by the short film-essay Hard Border (2018), directed by Juliet Riddell and performed by Stephen Rea, this themed issue of RISE approaches the Irish border by differentiating between internal and external Irish and Northern Irish, British and continental perspectives and by exploring historical dimensions as well as contemporary engagements with a border whose increasing (discursive and material) invisibility following the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has been crucial to the ongoing peace process.