Alan Mccrum News Today

Our man in the library, Pat Carty, selects the books that floated his boat over the last year.

Tullylish is a quiet rural parish, in the east of County Down. But during the Troubles, it was known for being part of a ‘murder triangle’ and an area blighted by paramilitary violence.

The Irish author’s painstakingly researched account of the sectarian killings that blighted his childhood in Tullylish, County Down, is among the most moving works on the conflict

Martin Doyle's "Dirty Linen" is a personal, searing history of the Northern Ireland conflict seen through the microcosm of the rural parish of Tullyish in Co Down.

The scale of the Northern conflict, more than 3,700 dead over 30 years in a population of just 1.5 million, is impossible to comprehend. I focused on my own parish

Martin Doyle on growing up in a Northern Ireland shrouded in bigotry and violence