tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post7915805601475164957..comments2023-12-14T10:28:43.397+00:00Comments on Declan Burke: They Haven’t Gone Away, You KnowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-32046232139753160282008-02-26T23:39:00.000+00:002008-02-26T23:39:00.000+00:00Hi Peter - You might find David Park's THE TRUTH C...Hi Peter - You might find David Park's THE TRUTH COMMISSIONER interesting ... I haven't read it yet, but it is being touted as the first great 'post-Peace' novel about Northern Ireland. For a humorous take, try Garbhan Downey's RUNNING MATES, or practically anything by Colin Bateman. Adrian McKinty grew up in Norn Iron but writes from an American perspective. Sam Millar seems to be keeping a steely eye on the Norn Iron ball too. Eoin McNamee / John Creed; John McFetridge's father hails from Larne; Eugene McEldowney for Norn Iron police procedurals; Seamus Smyth is originally from Belfast ... and, of course, Brian McGilloway, for a unique view from a character who straddles the border between North and South. Really, it's only a matter of time before someone sets up a blog dealing only in Northern Ireland crime fiction ... my money's on Gerard Brennan. Cheers, DecDeclan Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14322645323239292406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-56067947696129462772008-02-26T21:44:00.000+00:002008-02-26T21:44:00.000+00:00That sounds like an interesting book, if one can g...That sounds like an interesting book, if one can get past the ghastly critical jargon like "writing violence" and "depictions are continually interrogated."<BR/><BR/>Here's the part that ought to make anyone shudder and crime-fiction readers and authors perk up with interest: " ... especially as many ex-Provisional IRA members and those of the Loyalist paramilitary forces have since the beginning of the Northern Ireland Peace Process diversified into a criminality shorn of political motive."<BR/><BR/>The fate of political fighters shorn of their political raison d'etre also figures in Matt Rees' crime novels set in the Palestinian territories. One of the characters is a dangerous Bethlehem police chief who, in the author's words, is "typical of high-level Palestinian military men -– though not those with the absolute top jobs. Most of them are very disillusioned. They thought they'd come back from exile to be policemen, and suddenly young gunmen took over the streets and they weren't allowed to do anything about it."<BR/><BR/>==============<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.com