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The twelfth day of July (Kevin and Sadie)
Author: Joan Lingard
Date: 1970
Penguin Books
The story takes place in Belfast. It is about the conflict between Catholic (Kevin and Brede) and Protestant (Tommy and Sadie) children. One day two Catholic children spread the words DOWN WITH KING BILLY across the gable wall of a Protestant house. To take revenge the Protestant children paint GOD BLESS KING BILLY on a wall. This fight goes on and in the night of the eleventh of July all Protestant children stand on their side of the street, which parts the Catholic from the Protestant area, and all Catholic children stand on the other side. They begin to throw stones at each other. But suddenly a Catholic girl is hurt badly. When they realise how stupid they have been, they stop and Sadie and Tommy run to her and help her. So the Protestant and Catholic children get to know each other and some of them become friends.
Across the barricades (Kevin and Sadie)
Author: Joan Lingard
Date: 1972
Penguin Books
The story takes place in Belfast. Sadie, a Protestant girl, falls in love with Kevin, a Catholic boy. Sadie's mother doesn't want her to meet a Catholic boy but Sadie doesn't accept this. Also Kevin's friends are against the friendship with a Protestant girl. Because it is not safe to meet on the street they meet each other very often at Mr. Blake's house. Mr. Blake is a Protestant man, who helps the two children to keep their friendship. But because of this he is killed one day by a petrol bomb. Because of that and because Kevin is beaten up by some boys one day, Sadie is very afraid and doesn't want to see Kevin again. Because Kevin's life is not save anymore in Belfast and he has also lost his job he decides to leave Northern Ireland and to go to London. Sadie decides to go with him and start a new life in England.
Lies of silence
Author: Brian Moore
Date: 1990
Vintage
Michael Dixon is a hotel-manager in Northern Ireland. He is married to Moira but has an affair with Andrea Baxter. He decides to tell Moira that he wants to leave her and wants to go to England. But at night some people of the IRA break into their house. Michael is forced to drive his car into the car park of his hotel. He is told that there is a bomb hidden in it. If he doesn't do what they want, Moira will get killed, but if he does so hundreds of people will get killed in the hotel. So he drives the car into the car-park but then phones the police. The police come and all people get out of the hotel in time. Also Moira hasn't been killed by the IRA.
After this Michael decides to go to England with Andrea. In England the police phone Michael and ask him to identify one of the boys, who could have been involved in the IRA-attacks. He agrees but the same evening when he gets home from work he is killed by three men .
In the name of the father
Gerry Conlon is a Catholic and lives in Northern Ireland. There he fights on the streets against the British army. But one day he decides to go to England. There he lives together with young people whose motto are drugs and love.
One day there is a bomb-attack on an English pub. The police blame Gerry and his friends of having placed the bomb. But they are innocent. At the police-station they beat him up and threaten him to kill his father until he admits that he has set the bomb. So he and his father and also his friends in England and some of his family-members are arrested. But after fifteen years there is a new trial. Gerry's father has already died in jail. The case has been dismissed and all people, who they once have arrested are innocent. They have spent fifteen years in jail for something they haven't done
Michael Collins
Director: Neil Jordan
BBC FILM 1996
This film is about the life of Michael Collins. Michael Collins fights together with his friend Harry against the British army and wants Ireland to become independent. Later he becomes the leader of the IRA and organises many brutal attacks and killings. Harry becomes President of the Irish Republic and wants to fight against the English Empire without weapons. One day Michael Collins goes to peace-talks to England. There he accepts Ireland to become an Irish Free State. But Harry wants a Republic Ireland and so Michael and Harry start to fight against each other in the Civil War. Michael Collins is killed at the age of 31.
Conflict in Ireland
From origins to peace agreement
Author: Tony McAleavy
Date: 1999
Collins Educational
This book is a non-fiction book which informs about the Conflict in Ireland. It starts with the Invaders and settlers 100BC-1500AD and ends with the conflict of today. It also tells us something about the causes of the conflict.
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