Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee,
Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian
McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve
Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.
From the editors' introduction:
"Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as
Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the
Troubles (1968-1998) dominated life in Ireland's second-biggest
population centre, and during the darkest days of the conflict--in
the 1970s and 1980s--riots, bombings, and indiscriminate shootings
were tragically commonplace. The British army patrolled the streets
in armoured vehicles and civilians were searched for guns and
explosives before they were allowed entry into the shopping
district of the city centre...Belfast is still a city divided...
For all the shimmer and shine of the new Belfast, you can still
walk a mile or two in almost any direction and find some of the
worst deprivation in Western Europe. Those parts of the city have
not moved on. While the middle class has enjoyed the spoils of the
peace dividend, working-class areas have seen little improvement.
The sectarian and paramilitary murals are still there: crude
memorials to the fallen 'soldiers' of the conflict, to heroes and
martyrs still revered. For a small outlay, you can tour these
murals in a black taxi with a knowledgeable guide at the wheel,
ready to tell you who died where. You can see Belfast's bloodstains
up close and personal. This is the city that gave the world its
worst ever maritime disaster, and turned it into a tourist
attraction; similarly, we are perversely proud of our thousands of
murders, our wounds constantly on display. You want noir? How about
a painting the size of a house, a portrait of a man known to have
murdered at least a dozen human beings in cold blood? Or a similar
house-sized gable painting of a zombie marching across a
postapocalyptic wasteland with an AK-47 over the legend "UVF:
Prepared for Peace--Ready for War." As Lee Child has said, Belfast
is still 'the most noir place on earth.'"
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