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North Belfast Blues: A journey from childhood to the front line of The Troubles
It's the early 1970's. A boy is growing up at a terrifying sectarian interface in North Beflast during The Troubles, where bombs, bullets, death and murder are a daily occurrence. After one-too-many bodies is dumped outside his family's front door they finally flee the violence in search of a quieter, more peaceful rural life.
He returns to the same streets a decade later, this time as a paramedic, dealing with the same horrors that denied him a childhood; events which still carry on, and will continue to do so for another decade before the ceasefires and the Good Friday Agreement.
This is a true story of survival, of finding a purpose and identity that eluded him as a child. And of compassion for all ages and all sides in the terrible conflict. A testimony to the people who survived the conflict, and an acknowledgement of the dedication of the front line medical staff.
Death was everywhere, but so was humanity.
North Belfast Blues is not a story of blood or of gore; it's a story of real people.
He returns to the same streets a decade later, this time as a paramedic, dealing with the same horrors that denied him a childhood; events which still carry on, and will continue to do so for another decade before the ceasefires and the Good Friday Agreement.
This is a true story of survival, of finding a purpose and identity that eluded him as a child. And of compassion for all ages and all sides in the terrible conflict. A testimony to the people who survived the conflict, and an acknowledgement of the dedication of the front line medical staff.
Death was everywhere, but so was humanity.
North Belfast Blues is not a story of blood or of gore; it's a story of real people.
202 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 21, 2025
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