Dilly Dalley’s Reviews > Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border > Status Update

So far we have walked from Derry > Lifford > Strabane > Castlederg > Lough Derg > car ride to > Enniskillen. It is 1986, the summer after the Anglo-Irish Accord (signed by Maggie Thatcher and Garrett Fitzgerald) and Colm Toibin is writing about towns bombed out, people leaving for America/London, the Hiring Fair (structural poverty meted out to the Catholic population), and a weekend pilgrimage of self-mortification