Non-fiction

Mother Mary

I'm closing in on 1300 posts. God only knows how many words I've used yet I've very rarely written about my mother. If I had written all of those...
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That you Jack ? ( based on a true story that happened to my grandad)

It took me six weeks to gain my sea legs now I was finding it an usual sensation to be back on dry land. The docks in Liverpool were dull grey and...

Introducing the Bomber

By 1939, radio had become an integral part of American culture, and a substantial portion of the population regularly listened to radio broadcasts...

The Games We Once Played

The Games We Once Played By Paul McCann In another time around the streets of Ardoyne there was always games of one kind or another being played ...
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The Ardoyne Lifeline

The Ardoyne Lifeline By Paul McCann In Ardoyne there was a time that once existed and in my memory I remember the faces of the people in the place...
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The Heart Of Ardoyne

The Heart Of Ardoyne By Paul McCann I grew up in a little village in North Belfast called Ardoyne . It would be impossible to sum up the amount of...
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The Parallel Journey

{The Parallel Journey} An American portrait: The harsh reality of stop and frisk, confiscate, and book; for being racially profiled, to keep you In...
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India travelogue 1996 part 2

Then to Lucknow to see the old British residency. Beginning place of the 'Indian Revolution' a spooky ruin. The cannon ball shelled gateway and all...

India travelogue 1996 part 1

This covers my second visit to India 1995/6 (6 months over Xmas) the first visit was 1994/5 over Xmas. You can read about that visit on me website...