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Part 2 To know or not to know, all you want for your birthday.
Ebrington Barracks, Derry City, Ireland. I first contacted Mountjoy Jail in Dublin in 2021. My dad who served time in Mountjoy Jail before he left Ireland, died in 2011, so ten years had passed between his death and my attempted resurrection of the facts of his life. The emails with Bernadette from irishprisons.ie ran… Continue reading
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English, Irish, and Scouse. Part 1
I have written three novels that deal directly with issues of class, nationality and identity, check the link at the bottom for more information. Look out for an update on the publication of my new novel ‘Shanghai’d’ the second in the Red Detective Trilogy. ‘Shanghai’d’ is a story that spans generations and continents as we… Continue reading
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Lost and found Irish faces from the past.
My mum and dad both lost their fathers when they were young, in the same year, 1944, not a good year for my grandfathers, sixteen years before my birth. I never got to meet either, and because photographs of working-class people were scarce at the time, I had never seen an image of either. Both… Continue reading
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Give Ireland Back to The Irish-Fear and Loathing in Liverpool.
Paul McCartney’s first single with Wings in 1972, ‘Give Ireland Back to The Irish’ shortly after the Bloody Sunday shootings of innocent demonstrators in Derry in Northern Ireland, was an act of protest and built on the musical legacy of Liverpool. https://jackbyrne.home.blog/2020/03/19/do-you-know-liverpool-lou/ Liverpool Lou written and performed by Dominic Behan is an expression of this… Continue reading
About Me
Thanks for visiting my page. The aim of this page is to let you know what I am working on and allow you to tell me what you think.
I was born and raised in Speke Liverpool, although my parents first lived ‘Under The Bridge’ in Garston, and all my family goes back to Wicklow in Ireland.
The Liverpool Mystery series will be four novels, three books; Under The Bridge, The Morning After, and Fire Next Time are finished. Under The Bridge will be published in Feb 2021 and I hope at least one more will follow later in the year. I am writing The Wicklow Boys now, and I hope to finish it next year.
My writing like my blog is about the lives of working people and how they relate to society as a whole.
My collection of short stories The One Road is available below click to see details.
Jack Byrne 