Bad blood : a walk along the Irish border / Colm Tóibín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

Standardized Title:

Walking along the border

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tóibín, Colm, 1955---Travel--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Tóibín, Colm.

Tóibín, Colm, 1955-.

Travel.

Manners and customs.

Territory, National.

Social aspects.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Description and travel.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Territory, National--Social aspects--Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland--Social life and customs--20th century.

Northern Ireland.

Walking--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Walking.

Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1968-1998.

Politics and government.

Ireland--Politics and government--1949-.

Ireland.

Ireland--Ulster.

Physical Description:

193 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Picador, 2001.

Summary:

In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement [1985], when tension was high in Northern ireland, Colm Toíbín walked along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on the ordinary life and legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A bed for the night

The hiring fair

Dark night of the soul

A boat trip on Lough Erne

Facing the music

Enniskillen and South Fermanagh

Hard rain, Thatcherism and the Protestant inheritance

The walls of Derry

The killing fields

The road to Darkley

Surviving South Armagh.

Notes:

Originally published as: Walking along the border. London : Macdonald, 1987. First published 1994 by Vintage.

ISBN:

9780330373586

0330373587

9780330520973

0330520970

OCLC:

46393971