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JJ Hynes is forty-two, a veteran of the Troubles in Derry and Belfast. He has sacrificed his life, marriage, family to the Cause. Now he's on the run. Traumatised, bewildered, JJ finds refuge in Holland with a survivor of the Dutch Resistance who is still haunted, like himself, by past memories of war.Within a year, JJ is called back, tasked with persuading comrades in the West of Ireland to support the road to peace', a process he wants to believe in. In the village of Killoveragh, he encounters Ashling, a might-have-been sweetheart from his time in Dublin, and her sister Nora.Can JJ, himself wavering, persuade the hardliners to support the process leading to peace and a political settlement? Can there be peace, happiness and even love for somebody like him?History, politics, and possible redemption come together in a narrative that reads like a thriller but asks ser

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Drab, bleak Portadown, 1971, where Catholics are kept in their place, seen through the eyes of innocent, bright, mischievous and droll Barry-Joe McCoubrey, on the cusp of his teens reflecting on his own life, his family, his troubled neighbourhoodand girls.Popular with his schoolmates, Barry-Joe also has broody insular tendencies and spends a lot of time analysing both others and the growing conflict spreading from Belfast and Derry to his home town of Portadown, including the Garvaghy Road and the Tunnel areas.Barry-Joe shares a surname with Larry McCoubrey, a well-loved BBC newsreader, famous for his end-of-programme cheesy quips and jokes. Larry's jokes lead to banter and slagging from Barry-Joe's classmates. However, Larry also must report increasingly bad news and we see how Barry-Joe empathises with his namesake in this task.This is a hilarious and immensely moving coming-of-age novel from Mark B. McCaffery.

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Plotting was the natural consequence of the isolation we were detained in,' wrote John Sarsfield Casey, a Fenian prisoner in Pentonville in 1866, facing deportation. The prisoners established lines of communication to keep connected to each other and to the outside world.Republicans constantly defied and resisted authority. They smuggled; they planned escapes; and they disseminated news and told their stories in a literature which was central to morale and the integrity of the struggle.In Captive Columns Eoghan Mac Cormaic looks at the literature of the republican press which saw the production of over sixty prison titlesoften handwritten or typed. From the pinpricked sheets of toilet paper in Pentonville to Bobby Sands' poetry, written on toilet paper and smuggled out to be published, this is an astonishing story which has never been examined in such detail before.

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