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The Blackstaff Press is a publishing company in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1971, [3] it publishes printed books on a range of subjects (mainly, but not exclusively, of Irish interest) and, since 2011, has also published e-books. [3] It receives financial support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. [4]
In addition to writing novels, Patterson also makes documentaries for the BBC, and has published his collected journalistic writings as Lapsed Protestant (2006). He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4, and co-wrote with Colin Carberry the screenplay of the 2013 film Good Vibrations, about the music scene in Belfast during the late 1970s [3] (based on the true story of Terri Hooley).
After her marriage to Michael Longley, she moved with him to Belfast and obtained her first teaching post at Queen's University Belfast. From 1989 to 1994 she was Academic Director of the John Hewitt Summer School. Trinity College Dublin gave her an honorary doctorate in 2003. [2] Her daughter is the artist Sarah Longley.
Ciaran Carson was born on 9 October 1948 in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. [1] His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, worked in the linen mills. He spent his early years in the lower Falls Road where he attended Slate Street School and then St. Gall's Primary School, both of which subsequently closed.
Robert Anthony Welch was an emeritus professor of English and former dean of the faculty at the University of Ulster.He joined the university in 1984 as professor of English and head of the School of English, Media, and Theatre Studies, having previously taught at the School of English, University of Leeds, and the University of Ife in Nigeria.
The Springfield Road starts on the lower Falls Road, forming a continuation of the Grosvenor Road, which links the Falls to Belfast city centre. The road continues north-west before turning sharply in a more south-westerly direction. It eventually merges into the Monagh by-pass which links the area with Kennedy Way and ultimately the M1 motorway.
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In 1988 he was appointed Lecturer in English at Trinity College Dublin and for the next five years commuted between his home in Galway and work in Dublin before the family moved to Dublin in 1992. He was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2004, a Professor in English and the inaugural director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish ...