writing
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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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‘The Irish was educated out of us’
Derry News By Garrett Hargan Published 9th Mar 2021, 19:06 BST Updated 9th Mar 2021, 21:49 BST The former accommodation block at Ebrington where Peter would have lived. Liverpudlian author Jack Byrne speaks candidly about identity and the death of his brother at Ebrington Barracks in Derry A Liverpudlian writer’s new novel explores issues of class,… Continue reading
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The Boys of Dungeon Lane Part 2
From ‘Across The Water’ published by Northodox Pressbook 2 of The Liverpool Mysteries 1974 and Paddy a character from Across The Water is panicking. He kept the door open with his foot to combat the smell of piss and held the coin above the slot. Once it dropped, there’d be no going back. Beep… beep…… Continue reading
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The Boys of Dungeon Lane 1
Before The Storm published by Northodox Press Excerpt of Chapter 1311.30am, Friday, June 3rd, 1981 The kid was scrambling back up the slope. Sammo stepped outand started moving towards him.‘Sammo,’ Macca shouted. ‘Wait. What are you doing?’Sammo didn’t wait. Vinny watched, impressed by Sammo’sindependence, as he ran to the top of the slope.Macca waited, then… Continue reading
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A Contested City
My first three books Under The Bridge, Across The Water, and Before The Storm, The Liverpool Mysteries deal with times from the 50s to 2010 in Garston and Speke. Before The Storm shows the rise of a Reform type Councillor in Speke, a nationalist with the constant refrain ‘Stop the boats.’ Whatever is wrong in… Continue reading
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A Chimney Fire and a Moron
A chimney fire sounds like an oxymoron, words that shouldn’t go together, or sound odd, like Everton and winning, or conservative and caring. But go together they did, the chimney and the fire: not Lizz Truss suddenly caring about the tens of thousands she plunged into fear of bankruptcy, or Boris giving a toss about… 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 