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    Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader
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    Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader

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    Contraception, abortion, divorce, gay rights, the war with Britain. The fire has burned out, the smoke is drifting away, and we begin to see clearly now. When the next millennium comes the landscape for the young will have vastly changed … Forward to the future, sisters and brothers.' (from 'Divorce: Split Happens', 1995) Feminist, socialist, trenchant social commentator, Nell has seen and lived it all. From the early days of the civil rights movement and the revolutionary fervour of Free Derry to the bitter conflict at the Garvaghy Road and the Siege of Sarajevo, she has been both a participant in and a witness to history in the making. Writing about it all in her own way, and as nobody else ever could, the force of her passionate pen has won her a place as one of Ireland's best-loved journalists. Here are moving accounts of the numbed aftermath of Bloody Sunday; of the lonely death of Ann Lovett in 1984 and of the shock of the Kerry Babies case a year later. And in excerpts from her acclaimed 'In the Eyes of the Law' series we meet Maoists, Hare Krishna monks, wife-beaters and 'adult consenting males' confronting the Dublin District Courts. Taken from sources ranging from The Irish Times, Irish Press and Sunday Tribune, to Hot Press, Kerry's Eye and Magill, Vintage Nell harvests the strange fruits of Irish social and cultural life from the seventies to the twenty-first century. It features classic accounts of the Pope's Visit in 1979 and of the 'dirty protest' of women prisoners in Armagh Prison - and sympathetic, raw, incisive cameo-portraits of Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, Raymond Gilmour, Bishop Casey, Mary Robinson, Winnie Mandela, Mo Mowlam and others. From the serious - 'Reservoir Prods', 'Chernobyl' and 'The Life and Death of Mary Norris - to the witty and satiric - 'Silent Night', 'Golden Balls' and 'Jukebox' (on Elvis) - Vintage Nell concludes with a poignant description of her mother Lily's death in December 2004, and showcases the best work of this prodigiously talented writer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Lilliput Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2005
    ISBN9781843514503
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