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- Book Synopsis
- Belfast 1972. It's the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' and sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Eimear O'Callaghan bears witness in her new diary. What follows is a unique and at times disturbing insight into the life of an ordinary teenager coming of age in extraordinary times. The immediacy of the diary entries is complemented by the author's mature reflections upon rediscovering her journal forty years later. The result is poignant, shocking, wryly funny and, above all, explicitly honest. As Northern Ireland continues to be haunted by the legacy of its turbulent past, Belfast Days demonstrates how one person's examination of her own 'story' gave her a new perspective on one of the darkest periods in twentieth-century British and Irish history.
- About The Author
- Eimear O'Callaghan is a former BBC news editor with more than 30 years' experience in print and broadcast journalism. While most of her career was with BBC Northern Ireland, she also worked with the Irish News and with RTE in Dublin. She left the BBC in 2010 to set up a communications consultancy, Leapfrog Communications, and continues to work as a freelance writer.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781785371103
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Merrion Press, (01 February 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 430 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 135 x 27 mm
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