The role of fire in three NI literary works: Brian Friel’s play The Freedom of the City (1973), Bernard Mac Laverty’s novel Cal (1983), and The Fire Starters, a magic-realist novel by Jan Carson (2019). As a teenager growing up in France in the late 70s-early 80s, I vaguely heard about violent fights in Northern Ireland (NI) on television, but the idea of a “war” … Continue reading The Troubles in NI literature