Historian Cormac Moore’s new book looks at the Boundary Commission one hundred years on from its failure. It is another story in Irish history that might be framed as defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Although, what did victory look like? And what would have been the consequences of what many nationalists considered victory? The Boundary Commission, instead, can be seen through another prism. Beyond the bombastic rhetoric, as Moore calls it, the was an attempt to define an aspiration. If you like, it was an attempt to fix the boundary on the march of a nation. Moore’s book…

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