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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
The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1965) by Brian Moore is a coming-of-age novel set in Belfast. An Irish band called itself Emperor of Ice Cream and released two EPs, Puerile and Skin Tight , in 1993. The hero of Tom Perotta 's Joe College reflects on the poem throughout the novel, wondering what the ice cream symbolizes.
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Forrest Reid (24 June 1875, Belfast, Ireland; 4 January 1947, Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator.He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist, being awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Young Tom.
Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing is a literary magazine published in Belfast and edited by Chris Agee, Kathleen Jamie and Meg Bateman.. Since its full-scale launch in 2003, Irish Pages has established itself as the island’s premier literary journal, combining a large general readership with outstanding writing from Ireland and overseas.
Milkman is a 2018 historical psychological fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. [1] Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the story follows an 18-year-old girl, "middle sister", who is harassed by an older married man known as "the milkman" and then as "Milkman".
On her return to Northern Ireland, she began to write books with an Irish theme. One of the first was a biography of Brian Moore which was described by the critic Seamus Deane as 'a crisp and intelligent account of a man and a writer for whom Craig's clean and incisive approach seems perfectly appropriate'. [ 11 ]