BorderIrish

BorderIrish or @BorderIrish was the pseudonym of an anonymous satirical author, resident on the island of Ireland, who from 2018 to 2020 wrote in the first person about being the 97-year-old Irish border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (i.e. an anthropomorphism), both on Twitter as @BorderIrish and in print with I Am the Border, So I Am;

Authorship

The author first began posting satirical tweets as the Irish border in February 2018, tweeting "I'm seamless and frictionless already, thanks. Bit scared of physical infrastructure. Don't like the sea". however, he has not clarified any other facts regarding his identity, and speaks through his agents.

The author has been interviewed as his pseudonym, both by Irish and British media

In January 2019, the Twitter account of Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar was noted as a follower of @BorderIrish;

Works

In October 2019, BorderIrish released a book titled I Am the Border, So I Am, which was favourably reviewed, and described by Fintan O'Toole as "among the best satires of the Brexit era", and listed by Alex Clark in the Financial Times "Best audiobooks of 2019".