External Links

Below is a list of useful resources Dr. Adrian Grant has gathered in relation to the Customs Border 100th Anniversary. 

BBC Rewind Archive

 

Northern Ireland Customs workers on strike in Derry and Strabane, 1979

https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5d5576ff9b5b96002126aa99

 

Irish Army at the Bridgend Customs post in August 1969

https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5b20d807fc632e002b63e610

 

Killea Customs post blown up in 1971

https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5b58b9c030ed57001fbc64dc

 

Killea Customs post again blown up in 1976

https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5c0ffc96c87482002130ed33

 

Buncrana Road Customs, 1979

https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5d5576cb9b5b96002126a6e1

 

Explosion at Lifford Customs post, 1971

https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5b0571a6d6d60700296d10ac

 

RTÉ Archives

 

Lifford Customs post following new cross-border shopping rules, 1987

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21248943-cross-border-shopping-impact/

 

Lifford and Strabane Customs posts closed following bomb attack nearby, 1989

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21305339-lifford-bridge-closure/

 

Cars queue at Customs posts in Lifford following bomb warnings, 1989

https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21346227-bomb-threats-close-border-roads/

Northern Ireland Screen – Digital Film Archive

Footage of the new Customs posts at Strabane, opened in 1965

https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/new-customs-post-at-strabane-4487

 

Second World War border checks in Ireland, 1944

https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/eire-border-check-up-141

 

‘The Seat of all the Trouble’ – footage of the border from 1920s

https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/the-seat-of-all-the-trouble-109

 

 Other

Irish Borderlands website

http://www.irishborderlands.com/index.htm

 

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