Among Communists : A Memoir
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1800174063
ISBN-13
9781800174061
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Lives and Letters
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 26th, 2026
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
13.50 x 21.60 x 2.60 cms
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The first Communist memoir from Northern Ireland, set against a backdrop of the vanished culture of Belfast Communism, from the winner of the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes.
Northern Ireland is on fire. But rather than attending to the conflict raging around her, the young Sinead Morrissey is obsessed with the Cold War, East Germany and the utopia of the USSR. Set against the distinctive cultural milieu of Belfast Communism - its smoky meeting rooms, protests, marches, sports days, holidays, discos and Party bazaars - Among Communists tells a history of the Troubles unlike any other whilst simultaneously charting a young writer's journey into poetry. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, surprising everyone - Western Communists most of all - Morrissey's family followed suit and fell apart. This memoir charts those personal and political earthquakes, weaving together a lyrical exploration of familial love, belief, contrariness and loss, and of the galvanising power of sudden endings to make and re-make the past.
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