Little House on the Peace Line
Love and Laughter in the Shadow of a Belfast Peace Wall
2nd Edition
Published on 22. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-1-9161880-2-0 (ISBN)
Description
Driven by the conviction that things can change and that he can change them, Tony Macaulay takes up a job running a youth club in the staunchly nationalist New Lodge, in an area known as Murder Mile, where youth unemployment is at 90 per cent. Challenge enough you might think, but it's also a requirement of the job that Tony, a Protestant from the Shankill Road, and his wife Lesley live in the local community.
Inspiring, heart-breaking, and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is the story of how one couple kept the faith in a little house on the peace line.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9161880-2-0 (9781916188020)
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Person
Dr Tony Macaulay is an author, peacebuilder and broadcaster. His memoirs of growing up in Belfast during the Troubles, Paperboy, Breadboy and All Growed Up have been adapted into hit musicals at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. His autobiography Little House on the Peace Line tells the story of how he lived and worked on the Belfast peaceline in the 1980s. His debut novel Belfast Gate was Book of the Week in the Irish News. His novel Kill the Devil: A Love Story from Rwanda, was co-authored with Rwandan screenwriter, Juvens Nsabimana. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Ulster University for services to literature and peacebuilding at home and abroad.