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The book provides a lively discussion of the ways in which popular fiction appropriates the figure of the Provisional IRA activist and the political conflict within the north of Ireland. It looks at how authors' recreations, or transformations, of Irish republicanism might reveal self-referentional images that are, ultimately, a product of national identity and/or gender identity. An important focus of the book interrogates British fascination and fixation with the Provisional IRA and its 'terrors'. The many novels discussed in this study include Gerald Seymour Harry's Game; Campbell Armstrong Jig; Bernard MacLaverty Cal; Mary Costello Titanic Town; Jennifer Johnston Shadows on our Skin; Deidre Madden One by One through the Darkness.
Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Craig Whiteside thinks everything on the surface of his ‘small-time’ is large enough for a middle-of-the-road town. He’s about to discover that once you start a dangerous thing, a ‘little learning’ is the only way to follow a connection to a lasting fling.... ...Or a heartfelt sing (Sing...). In one ‘stretch’ - or sentence - spanning the gulf between 1984 and 2007, a woman’s murder echoes along the spine of a country, and beyond into an alternate reality. In another, spanning only a day’s progress into night and morning, the continuation of her life is reflected in two others, down through the passages of an essential history, to link still two more lives across the continu...
Revealing a history of mysterious deaths, shady characters, and moral and political tensions, exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church to trace how the Vatican evolved from an institution of faith into an extremely wealthy corporate power. --Publisher's description.
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