In Turbulent Times

De: Ron Duffy

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Since its incorporation as a semi-autonomous country within the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has survived the convulsions of the Civil War, the privations of the Second World War, the abortive IRA campaign of violence in the 1950s, and the student-led agitation for Civil Rights in the 1960s that unleashed over thirty years of brutal terror, euphemistically referred to as The Troubles. Add to all of those the historically difficult role of Great Britain, whose best intentions for sending the troops into Belfast in 1969 were not to become a player in the Troubles but to calm explosive tensions within the unruly province. Nora Carrick lives through the turbulent times of the province’s afflicted history while struggling with demons of her own: the tragic loss of a lover; one failed marriage and a second barely surviving; a contentious, divided, dysfunctional family; and most demonic of all a debilitating, life-threatening epilepsy. Nora faces up to the problems plaguing her unpredictable life with a stoic independence of spirit inherited from her MacLir family ancestry. This novel, a sequel to The Unquiet Land, tells her story.