Little House on the Peace Line: Living on the Other Side

Living and Working as a Pacifist on Belfast's Murder Mile

Cover Art for 9780856409929, Little House on the Peace Line: Living on the Other Side by Tony Macaulay
ISBN: 9780856409929
Publisher: Blackstaff Press
Published: 27 April, 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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`In 1985, I went to live on the other side of the peace line. Everyone said my head was cut. It was the summer of Live Aid and Bob Geldof pledged to save Africa from hunger. My ambitions were more modest. I wanted to stop the violence between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.' Driven by the conviction that things can change and that he can change them, Tony Macaulay takes up a job running a youth club in the staunchly nationalist New Lodge, an area known as Murder Mile, with youth unemployment at 90 per cent. Challenge enough you might think, but it's also a requirement of the job that Tony, a Protestant from the Shankill Road, and his wife Lesley live in the local community. As the realities of life in a working-class republican community start to hit home, Tony's idealism and faith are pushed to the limit. Inspiring, heart-breaking, and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is the story of how one couple kept the faith in a little house on the peace line.

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