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By Sam McAughtry

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“His prose is stripped clean of artifice and has the seeming simplicity of a vivid, moral voice calling out in a wilderness of uncertainty. It is a subtle, powerful sound.”

A story in Sam McAughtry’s Belfast (1981), reissued as Belfast Stories by Blackstaff Press in 1993.

Sam McAughtry writes about life in troubled areas, particularly the Tiger Bay area of Belfast, between the Antrim Road and North Queen Street.

Further Infomation

YEAR WRITTEN

1981

YEAR SET

1929

REVIEWS

“His prose is stripped clean of artifice and has the seeming simplicity of a vivid, moral voice calling out in a wilderness of uncertainty. It is a subtle, powerful sound.”
The Times

PUBLISHING INFORMATION

YEAR PUBLISHED

1981

PUBLISHER

Ward River Press, Blackstaff Press (1993)

TYPE OF PUBLICATION

Short Story

ISBN

978-0856405204