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A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world [1] or milieu to include a context (especially
Though the books of Forrest Reid (1875–1947) are not well known today, he has been labelled 'the first Ulster novelist of European stature', and comparisons have been drawn between his own coming of age novel of Protestant Belfast, Following Darkness (1912), and James Joyce's seminal novel of growing up in Catholic Dublin, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
In literature regionalism refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape, of a particular region (also called "local colour"). The setting is particularly important in regional literature and the "locale is likely to be rural and/or provincial."
Irish literature is literature written in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots (Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland. The earliest recorded Irish writing dates from back in the 7th century and was produced by monks writing in both Latin and Early Irish, including religious texts, poetry and mythological tales.
Zebedee was a guest of the Belfast Book festival and the C. S. Lewis festival. She was a guest for Titancon, the main Northern Ireland convention, and chair for the event in 2020. [10] She's also been a guest of Octocon, Ireland's national convention. Zebedee also works for her own management consultancy.
The Kevin and Sadie series is a 1970s set of young adult novels by Scottish novelist Joan Lingard. The books, set in Northern Ireland and England against the backdrop of the Northern Ireland conflict, deal with a young couple; Sadie Jackson, who is from the Ulster Protestant community, and Kevin McCoy, who is from the Irish Catholic community ...
[1] Lynd was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he befriended James Winder Good and Paul Henry, [2] and studied at Queen's University. His father served a term as Presbyterian Church Moderator as one of a long line of Presbyterian clergy in the family. A 2003 essayist on Lynd recounts that his "maternal grandfather, great ...
Michael Magee (born May 1990), [1] also known as Michael Nolan, [2] is a writer from Northern Ireland. His first novel, Close to Home , won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature , was a category winner in the Nero Book Awards , and was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year.