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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.
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).
He worked as a teacher of maths and physics in Belfast for 35 years, firstly at St John's Primary School (1929–57) and then (as headmaster) at St Thomas Secondary School (1957–64). [citation needed] Joe Graham in his book, Belfast Born Bred And Buttered speaks fondly of having been taught by McLaverty both at St John's and St Thomas's schools.
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).
Among the novels that depict the Troubles within the Literature of Northern Ireland, No Bones is considered an important work and has been compared to Dubliners by James Joyce for capturing the Belfast population's everyday language. [5] Her second novel, Little Constructions, was published in 2007 by Fourth Estate (an imprint of HarperCollins ...
Nero Book Award (2023) 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.
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 ...
The addition of Mark, according to Irene Haas, "adds much to the family and the book." [3] Kirkus Reviews says "There is a certain guilelessness about Elizabeth Enright's stories – but they leave you with a warm and pleasant glow." [4] The Saturday Review of Literature also liked the addition of Mark and the way he proved his worth to the ...