10th August 2009 – Peter Geoghegan

40 years of the British Army in Northern Ireland

By peterPosted on 10th August 2009Posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Sunday Business PostTagged British Army, Frankie Quinn, Northern Ireland, Red Barn Gallery

Feature from latest Sunday Business Post August 15, 1969. Even those with the most cursory of interests in Northern Irish history will recognise the date of the British Army’s first deployment in Belfast. But for almost 40 years no photographic record of the soldiers’ arrival on the city’s streets existed, until an octogenarian with a […]

Review: Fiachra Sheridan – The Runners

By peterPosted on 10th August 2009Posted in Books, Review, Sunday Business PostTagged Fiachra Sheridan, Inner City Dublin, The Runners2 Comments

Review of Fiachra Sheridan‘s debut novel The Runners from yesterday’s Sunday Business Post: Dublin’s north inner city has never had it easy, but the 1980s were particularly deleterious.Unchecked urban decay, vertiginous unemployment figures and a deadly influx of cheap heroin made it a decade to forget for many of the capital’s poorest and most vulnerable. […]

Day: 10th August 2009