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Because of the Irish border's troubled history and heightened symbolism, filmmakers have since long relied on the border as a setting to thematise issues of national identity, belonging, and trauma. Departing from the concept of border poetics this article takes films featuring the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland as its topic of inquiry. Beyond compiling a border film archive in which all cinematic representation of the Irish border is collected, a close reading is conducted of border mobilities in a sample of 43 narrative fiction films (1937-2021). The article's textual analysis makes the distinction between three border mobilities (1) border crossing, (2) border inhabiting, and (3) border (re)visiting, to investigate how filmmakers utilise the Irish border for various narrative, formal, and ideological ends. As such, the border's cinematic legacy can be better understood., Competing Interests: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)., (© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.)

A 47-year-old chronic alcoholic white male with previously normal renal function and no prior history of urinary tract infection developed the sudden onset of fever, bilateral flank pain, oliguria, and deterioration of renal function. Subsequent workup revealed massive pyuria, bilaterally enlarged kidney, and positive urine and blood cultures for E. coli. In spite of successful treatment with appropriate antibiotics and gradual improvement of the patient's clinical status, pyuria and renal failure persisted, necessitating institution of hemodialysis. 8 weeks after admission a renal biopsy revealed renal parenchymal malakoplakia.