OUR TROUBLES: Stories of Catholic Belfast during the Troubles of 1968-1998 - Brossura

Canavan, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1908420332 ISBN 13: 9781908420336

Casa editrice: Phaeton Publishing Limited, 2024

Riassunto

Our Troubles is a collection of compelling and honest stories about the Troubles in the North of Ireland - particularly the hot spot of North Belfast, from where the author hails and which accounted for one in six of the deaths in the Troubles. Two of his uncles were killed in the conflict. A great strength of the stories is the author's focus on what he knows personally and the passion he feels on the subject. He does not fall into the trap (which has become something of a convention in writing about the Troubles) of looking at the conflict from every point of view, but writes with a deep understanding of what he knows intimately: the Catholic experience of the Troubles. This was terrible as the conflict was ongoing, but even after it was over, a sense of grievance lingered because of what was perceived as a political lack of respect for what Catholics had suffered. "...Automatically, Finn added Kevin Myler to the mental list of people he knew who had died in the troubles: Uncle Christy, Uncle Jimmy, Terry Morgan, other neighbours from home. Kevin's death didn't seem exceptional. ... As they filled in the blanks - Paddy and Colm were much better at keeping track of people than Finn was - it became clear that of the forty-two boys in their year, only about half had ordinary lives. Some had just dropped off the radar, the rest were in prison, on the run, or dead. So there was nothing special about Kevin. ..."

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Phaeton Publishing Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1908420332
• ISBN 13: 9781908420336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 158
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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