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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).
Cal, Cape / Blackstaff Press (1983) Grace Notes, Cape / Blackstaff Press (1997) The Anatomy School, Cape / Blackstaff Press (2001) Midwinter Break: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company (2017) Short story collections. Secrets & Other Stories, Blackstaff Press (1977) A Time to Dance & Other Stories, Cape / Blackstaff Press (1982) The Great Profundo ...
In the early 1980s, Fergus O'Hare wrote a column in Fortnight, a Belfast-based politics and arts review magazine and for An Gael the magazine of the New York Irish Arts Centre. He published a history of the 1907 Belfast dockers and carters strike [ 8 ] led by James Larkin, 'The divine gospel of discontent'.
He then worked as a writer in residence with the Lyric Theatre (Belfast) (1980-82). For the Lyric he wrote: Dockers (1981), a recreation of working-class life in Belfast’s Sailortown district. This was followed by The Interrogation of Ambrose Fogarty (1982), Castles in the Air (1983), and Minstrel Boys (1985). [ 3 ]
Modern Irish Lives (1996 Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, and St. Martin's, New York) is an encyclopedia of men and women who influenced Irish life in the twentieth century. David contributed more than five hundred articles to the book. The Angel Tapes (1997 St. Martin's, New York, and Blackstaff Press, Belfast) is a crime thriller set in Dublin. It ...
Sandy Row is an inner city area of south Belfast, Northern Ireland, which is predominantly Protestant working-class. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2018, the population was estimated to be around 4,000. [ 3 ] It is a staunchly loyalist area and heartland of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Orange Order .
BBC White City (White City One, Media Centre, Energy Centre, Garden House) White City, London: Former home of several production teams and administration departments. BBC Centre House White City, London: Former home to BBC Research South Lab [38] Old Broadcasting House: Leeds: BBC North (1968–2002), BBC Yorkshire (2002–2004) BBC Radio Leeds ...