Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland used to draw smugglers, paramilitaries, police and soldiers, but the landscape of twisting lanes and hedgerows may soon entice a new type of visitor: literary pilgrims. A plan is under way to rebrand it as Ireland’s “northern literary lands” and to create the world’s first Unesco region of literature. Continue reading...

By Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent