Merrion Press 🔖is on the cusp of publishing a new book byMartin Doyle.
COMING
SOON
Dirty Linen The Troubles in My
Home Place MARTIN DOYLE
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times,
offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through
the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the
Linen Triangle – heartland of the North’s defining industry – and
the Murder Triangle – the Badlands devastated by paramilitary
violence. He lifts the veil of silence drawn over the horrors of
the past, recording in heartrending detail the terrible toll the
conflict took – more than twenty violent deaths in a few square
miles – and the long tail of trauma it has left behind. He also
conveys the texture of the times, the high streets where cars
could not be left unattended, the newsflashes, the constant
background buzz of threat and fear.
Neighbours and classmates who lost loved ones in the
conflict, survivors maimed in bomb attacks and victims of
sectarianism, both Catholic and Protestant, entrust him with
their stories. Doyle marries his local knowledge with a literary
sensibility and skilfully shows how the once dominant local linen
industry serves as a metaphor for both communal division but also
the solidarity that transcended the sectarian divide. To those
who might ask why you would want to reopen old wounds, the answer
might be that some wounds have never been allowed to heal.
Hardback • €24.99 | £22.99 •
368 pages • 234 mm x 153 mm
• 9781785374609
About the
Author Martin Doyle is Books
Editor of The
Irish Times, which he joined in 2007. He started his
career in London in 1990 with The
Irish World, joined The Irish Post in 1992 and
became Editor before moving in 2001 to The Times.
A native of Banbridge, Co. Down, he is a graduate of the
University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he studied French and
German. He contributed an essay to The 32: An Anthology of Irish
Working-Class Voices (Unbound, 2021) and to the Routledge Handbook of
the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace (forthcoming).
Merrion Press 🔖is on the cusp of publishing a new book byMartin Doyle.
COMING
SOON
Dirty Linen The Troubles in My
Home Place MARTIN DOYLE
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times,
offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through
the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the
Linen Triangle – heartland of the North’s defining industry – and
the Murder Triangle – the Badlands devastated by paramilitary
violence. He lifts the veil of silence drawn over the horrors of
the past, recording in heartrending detail the terrible toll the
conflict took – more than twenty violent deaths in a few square
miles – and the long tail of trauma it has left behind. He also
conveys the texture of the times, the high streets where cars
could not be left unattended, the newsflashes, the constant
background buzz of threat and fear.
Neighbours and classmates who lost loved ones in the
conflict, survivors maimed in bomb attacks and victims of
sectarianism, both Catholic and Protestant, entrust him with
their stories. Doyle marries his local knowledge with a literary
sensibility and skilfully shows how the once dominant local linen
industry serves as a metaphor for both communal division but also
the solidarity that transcended the sectarian divide. To those
who might ask why you would want to reopen old wounds, the answer
might be that some wounds have never been allowed to heal.
Hardback • €24.99 | £22.99 •
368 pages • 234 mm x 153 mm
• 9781785374609
About the
Author Martin Doyle is Books
Editor of The
Irish Times, which he joined in 2007. He started his
career in London in 1990 with The
Irish World, joined The Irish Post in 1992 and
became Editor before moving in 2001 to The Times.
A native of Banbridge, Co. Down, he is a graduate of the
University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he studied French and
German. He contributed an essay to The 32: An Anthology of Irish
Working-Class Voices (Unbound, 2021) and to the Routledge Handbook of
the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace (forthcoming).
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
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