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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

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

A rainbow over the Mourne Mountains
The Mourne Mountains, which inspired CS Lewis, will be a stop on the ‘spiritual way’. Photograph: Gareth McCormack/Alamy

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.

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