Park Novel Reviewed

My review of ‘The Truth Commissioner’ by David Park has just been published in the online scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies. Here it is in full. Last January the Consultative Group on the Past (a British-appointed body) published...

August 1969

  13th March. Interviewed by BBC Radio Ulster about Radio Free Belfast in August 1969, and what effect the pogroms had on my life. 11th March. Finished ‘Numbers in the Dark’ by Italo Calvino. Liked ‘Dry River’, ‘Like a Flight of Ducks’ and ‘Beheading The Heads’, but...

Diego – Colombian Guerilla Fighter

In Belfast today [6th March] I officially launched a book, an autobiography, by 34-year-old Diego Fernando López Jaramillo, a member of the Colombian guerilla group ELN, who is serving 40 years in La Modelo Prison, Bogota. The book was smuggled out of the prison by...