Sunday, July 25, 2010

Belfast Diary

This book is about an American who goes to Belfast in the 1980s and covers the Troubles from a local perspective. While the author tried to stay neutral in his book it was clearly pro-Catholic (he even states that he is Catholic.) I guess only a Jewish person can be neutral about Northern Ireland. In fact, the author tells a drunk woman that he is an American Jew when she asks him if he is Protestant or Catholic. It was a good memoir of the author's stay in Belfast, but I wouldn't call it un-biased.

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