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Tom Hartley uses the story of Balmoral Cemetery to examine key events in Belfast's history, industries and politics, and looks at the careers of the many people buried there.
MICHAEL MCLAVERTY, one of Ireland's most distinguished short story writers, painted with acute precision and intensity the northern landscape of his homeland - lonely hill farms, rough island terrain and the tight backstreets of Belfast. Focusing on moments of passion, wonder or bitter disenchantment in lives that are a continuous struggle towards the light, these stories, in the compassion of the tone and the spare purity of the language, are nothing short of masterly. Illustrated with specially commissioned woodcuts by Barbara Childs, and including an introduction by Seamus Heaney and a foreword by Sophia Hillan, this handsome hardback edition is a fitting celebration of a writer who has been compared to both Joyce and Chekhov.
Jonathan Bardon teaches in the School of Modern History at Queen's University, Belfast.
The Belfast Anthology collects writings from a diversity of authors spanning over 300 years. The result is a finely detailed literary portrait of the city, both favourable and highly critical and unflinching.
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An anthology of specially commissioned short stories exploring the weird, surreal, and dream-like. Bringing together some of the best of Northern Ireland's literary talents as well as new and exciting voices, this collection is dark, funny, and unsettling.