A Door Opening – Sligo and the Legacies of Partition (Edited by Susan McKay & Keith Hopper)

This is a book that originates in a gathering of things that relate to the title gathered as part of a heritage event in Sligo Library. It is fusion of many different things ranging from abridged interviews with the likes of Fergal Keane, to extracts from novels, a libretto and a film script. There is poetry and critical essays but everyone will find something in this collection that touches them. For me, the thing that will stick in my memory are those stories of violence, murder and collusion that blight Irish history. It is those things that humans seem to do to each other that to me are incomprehensible and yet happened for what now seems relatively trivial. However, the state of the world today would indicate that things are just the same and that as humans we have advanced in many ways but clearly in some areas we have made no progress. A good book to dip in and out of.

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