OUR TROUBLES – Stories of Catholic Belfast during the Troubles of 1968-1998
The area was an uneasy spot in those years, accounting for one in six of the Troubles’ fatalities, and is where the author, Anthony Canavan, like his principal character Finn, was born and bred. Like Finn, the author went to St. Malachy’s College and then to Queen’s University, and his intimate knowledge of his character’s time and place is a great strength of the stories. Of his own life there, he writes in his introduction: “Most people just tried to get on with their lives. Those that had jobs went out to them each day, not knowing if they would come home in one piece… Funerals were a common feature of our existence as people were killed – usually shot, but sometimes the victim of bombs.
Anthony Canavan
- Phaeton
- 9781908420343
- 158 pages
- €35
- Hardback
- Ireland
- Fiction
