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Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary


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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. 

Table of Contents:
Preface to the new edition Author’s note  Acknowledgements  Map  Prologue ‘Prayer is our only hope, seeing we haven’t got a gun!’  1. ‘Wish something big would hurry up and happen.’  2. ‘Sure there will be serious trouble.’  3. ‘Blitzed, strife-torn corner of the earth.’  4. ‘Two months to bury our dead.’  5. ‘The glory of the Lord.’  6. ’My nerves are shattered.’  7. ‘Unchristian type of satisfaction.’  8. ‘All I could do was pray.’  9. ‘Too good to be true.’  10. ‘The inevitability of civil war.’  11. ‘All my childish instincts.’  12. ‘Cèpes à la bordelaise.’  13. ‘Dirty, horrible, backward, dark Belfast.’  14. ‘A pity ALL the Catholics hadn’t been killed.’  15. ‘We’ll all be butchered.’  16. ‘No longer is anyone unlikely to be shot.’  Epilogue ‘Thankful to be alive.’ 

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.

Review :
‘O’Callaghan’s diary powerfully and touchingly conveys the destructive impact of war on adolescents..She has made an important contribution to the documentary record of the conflict’. 


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781908928894
  • Publisher: Merrion Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Merrion Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 324
  • Sub Title: A 1972 Teenage Diary
  • ISBN-10: 1908928891
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 133 mm


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