I was surprised, therefore, to discover that I knew more about the late-20th-century Troubles than they did. Despite visiting the North often over more than a quarter-century, I felt nervous about the prospect of instructing Northern Irish students on this subject. In the spring of 2017, as a US Fulbright Scholar, I taught an advanced undergraduate seminar at Queen’s University Belfast on literary responses to the peace process in Northern Ireland. As fewer and fewer readers remember that time for themselves, this book will only become more and more relevant. Madden wrote it with the aim of showing “what it was like to live through the Troubles”. Lately I’ve been thinking about Deirdre Madden’s 1996 novel One by One in the Darkness.
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