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by John Conroy

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"For those puzzled by Northern Ireland, Belfast Diary offers a well-written, sympathetic and clear-eyed view" of life during the Troubles (New York Times Book Review)

In the late 1960s, the ongoing conflict between the Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists of Northern Ireland--divided by their stance on the country's constitutional position as part of the United Kingdom--escalated to new, terrifying heights. Chicago journalist John Conroy was there on the frontlines, living among the people most affected by it. In Belfast Diary, Conroy offers a street-level view of life in a Catholic Ghetto in West Belfast, painting vivid portraits of its citizens and the violence they faced during the Troubles: bomb threats, murder, police brutality, and more.

Conroy's recounting of this tumultuous moment in Northern Irish history has been hailed as the best explanation of the more than twenty-five-year conflict. Now with a new afterword, Belfast Diary conveys an understanding that is an essential prerequisite to peace: the resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders.

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'The best book written by an American journalist about the... 'troubles'....As vividly as the most exciting novel, Belfast Diary re-creates the 'troubles' through portraits of the...men and women affected by the danger and the terror.'--Andrew Greeley, Chicago Sun-times

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  • Title Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life
  • Author John Conroy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1995-06-30
  • ISBN 9780807002179 / 0807002178
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.03 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.32 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Belfast (Northern Ireland) - Social life and, Violence - Northern Ireland - Belfast -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94041937
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.670

Media reviews

For those puzzled by Northern Ireland, Belfast Diary offers a well-written, sympathetic and clear-eyed view.--New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Conroy's account is suffused with an ominous tension. . . . He eschews the reductive, and succeeds in mounting a disturbing case." --New Yorker

"A sensitive and perceptive chronicle . . ." --London Times

Citations

  • New York Times, 10/08/1995, Page 40

About the author

John Conroy is an award-winning Chicago journalist and a MacArthur Foundation and Alicia Patterson Foundation grant recipient.
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