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

Sara Backer Windows I‒V “Everything we look at is conditioned by the eye of memory.”—Ciaran Carson Blackshaw’s windows are the upright rectangles of my childhood. The bottom panes push up for air. A latch in the middle locks shut. Opening or closing requires a strong shove. A shade pulls down with a lifesaver loop, which swings until settled. I’m back in my first bedroom—I could draw a map of it to this day. A window on each exterior wall, my bed in the windowless corner. One window full of pine branches and sky, the other a slope, too steep for lawn, wild in June with daisies ...

Research project ‘These children are people like us’: agency, belonging and the ethics of representing displaced children in the work of Beverley Naidoo This project is the outcome of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Seven Stories: the National Centre for Children’s Books. Children’s literature has the potential to both contribute to and provide a powerful counternarrative to dehumanising popular discourses about displaced people. A writer of children’s fiction, depicting displaced children in West African, apartheid South Africa and the UK, Beverley Naidoo is in ideal subj...

Glyn Maxwell, Alan Gillis, Ben Wilkinson on poetic voice, formal prowess, and strange times . . . Paul Farley took the pulse at the turn of our millennium when he quipped that contemporary poets haven’t had criticism, they’ve had marketing. In an age where marketing’s role in matters aesthetic is ever-increasing, the individual voice can be an overvalued commodity, playing to a perceived appetite for poet-as-author. It is refreshing, then, to encounter Glyn Maxwell’s How the Hell Are You, a collection of poems whose unfashionably complex play with poetic voice recognises and exploi...

Iggy had an ‘infectious passion for music’ Posted: 9:05 am March 4, 2021 By Jodie Curran THE death has taken place of a Tempo father who had an “infectious passion for music” and a “lust for life” after a brave battle with cancer. Iggy Murphy (44) of Ballyreagh, was widely known for his talents both on and off the stage. A dedicated member of the Cavanacarragh band and players, Mr Murphy was no stranger to the local music scene, having performed with a number of popular bands. “Iggy was my idol growing up. Our last performance together was at Rock the Lough and I truly ...