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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).
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
John Boyd (1912–2002) [1] was a Northern Irish teacher, radio producer, and playwright. [1] [2] Noted for his ability to reproduce the speech of working class Belfast, he has been described as Northern Ireland's most important playwright, [2] and encouraged the careers of other writers including Seamus Heaney and Stewart Parker.
From Irish loca meaning "a pile of" or "a wad of", or simply an extended meaning of "lock" as in "a lock of hair". loch, lough: lake/sea inlet noun: Pronounced lokh. From Irish loch. lug: ear noun: From Scots. Originally from Norse, used to mean "an appendage" (cf. Norwegian lugg meaning "a tuft of hair"). Used throughout Scotland & Ireland ...
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Her first was a collection of her earlier short stories entitled A Belfast Woman (1980). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This was followed by A Literary Woman (1990). She also wrote a novel entitled Give them Stones (1987), and several children's books including Orla was Six , Orla at School , A Family Tree , and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons .
MacLaverty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at Holy Family Primary School in the Duncairn district and then at St Malachy's College. After school, he worked as a medical laboratory technician and studied at Queen's University Belfast. He lived in Belfast until 1975, when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four ...
Eureka Street is a novel by Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1996 in the UK (1997 in the US), it focuses on the lives of two Belfast friends, one Catholic and one Protestant, shortly before and after the IRA ceasefire in 1994. A BBC TV adaptation of Eureka Street was broadcast in 1999. [1]