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“... on the night of 2 September 1666. Samuel Wood’s story isn’t typical of those told by Craig Spence. His book concentrates on fatal accidents, on the sudden violent deaths visited on the unwary and the unlucky in an age of accelerating change. Spence’s sources include the parish registers in which ...”

“... that Seamus Reilly’s name is not unknown on the Shankill, does he mean in the way that Gusty Spence, say, might strike a chord on the Falls? These are matters that could be clearer. Blight, on a smaller scale, and more enticingly envisaged, is the theme of Rachel Ingalls’s pungent quartet of stories. ‘Pearlkillers’ are people whose skin rots ...”

“... Cavan, Fermanagh and Tyrone. During the Home Rule crisis of the early 20th century, Sir James Craig, the founding father of Northern Ireland, envisaged hiving off the four most strongly Protestant counties – Antrim, Down, Londonderry and Armagh – to form an Ulster statelet. In the event, Fermanagh and Tyrone were added to the new self-governing ...”