A Belfast Child

Author: John Chambers
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 1789462754
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but although raised as a Loyalist, he was hiding a troubling secret: that his disappeared mother - whom he'd always been told was dead - was a Roman Catholic, 'the enemy'. In a memoir of rare power, John explores the dark heart of Northern Irish sectarianism in the seventies and eighties. With searing honesty and native Belfast wit, he describes the light and darkness of his unique childhood, and his teenage journey through mod culture and ultra-Loyalism, before an escape from Belfast to London - where, still haunted by the shadow of his fractured family history - he began a turbulent and hedonistic adulthood. A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate redemption for a family caught in the rising tide of the Troubles.

Through the Eyes of a Belfast Child - Life. Personal Reflections. Poems

Author: Greg McVicker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781460232453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Life is a journey. Often times and without choice, our actions and interactions within the environments in which we grow, live, work, and play, define our worldviews and shape who we are. Anyone who has faced traumatic events may look for an outlet to share their experiences in the hopes they are not alone in their struggles. In hindsight, however, the realization is that we are all human, and each and every one of us has a unique story to tell.

At Play in Belfast

Author: Donna M. Lanclos
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813533223
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Annotation An exploration of children's lives through the lend of Folklore.

Children of the Troubles

Author: Joe Duffy
Publisher: Hachette Ireland
ISBN: 9781473697355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The bullets didn't just travel in distance, they travelled in time. Some of those bullets never stop travelling." Jack Kennedy, father of James Kennedy On 15th August 1969, nine-year-old Patrick Rooney became the first child killed as a result of the 'Troubles' - one of 186 children who would die in the conflict in Northern Ireland. Fifty years on, these young lives are honoured in a memorable book that spans a singular era. From the teenage striker who scored two goals in a Belfast schools cup final, to the aspiring architect who promised to build his mother a house, to the five-year-old girl who wrote in her copy book on the day she died, 'I am a good girl. I talk to God', Children of the Troubles recounts the previously untold story of Northern Ireland's lost children -- and those who died in the Republic, the UK and as far afield as West Germany -- and the lives that might have been. Based on original interviews with almost one hundred families, as well as extensive archival research, this unique book includes many children who have never been publicly acknowledged as victims of the Troubles, and draws a compelling social and cultural picture of the era. Much loved, deeply mourned, and never forgotten, Children of the Troubles is both an acknowledgement of and a tribute to young lives lost.

A Child of Books

Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763690775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A young reader introduces a boy to the many imaginative worlds that books bring to life.

Spirit of the Titanic

Author: Nicola Pierce
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847173497
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Samuel Scott died while building the Titanic. As the ship sails to her doom, his ghost moves restlessly alongside the passengers and crew: Frederick Fleet: the young look-out who spotted the iceberg and who survived in a life-boat with (the unsinkable) Molly Brown; Howard Hartley Wallace: the heroic band-leader who played ragtime music as the freezing waters lapped at his feet; Harold Bride: the junior radio operator whose messages echoed on, long after the ship had disappeared to its icy grave ...

One Belfast Boy

Author: Patricia McMahon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395686201
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description
Describes the life of Liam Leatham, a young Catholic boy, and his family as he prepares for a boxing match that he sees as the first step out of violence-plagued Belfast.

The Ghosts of Belfast

Author: Stuart Neville
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 156947706X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book and Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Neville's debut remains "a flat-out terror trip" (James Ellroy) and "one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times" (John Connolly). Northern Ireland’s Troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. Every night, at the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. But it’s not enough. In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces, the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen, all are called to account. But when Fegan’s vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce and destabilize the government, old comrades and enemies alike want him dead.

Children of the Troubles

Author: Peter Jennings
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780551013155
Category : Northern Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description

For the Love of a Mother

Author: Annie Yellowe Palma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909465565
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Autobiographical account of impoverished life in Ulster through the eyes of a black child, exposed to the daily struggles associated with sectarian strife in the 1960s and 1970s.