The Bogside Boys
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Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972. The Bogside is a Catholic district that has risen against the Protestant authorities and the British troops who back them, and its barricades are guarded by masked IRA members. Mick Doherty is keeping a secret from his family: he is seeing Melissa Rice, a Protestant girl from the comfortable side of the city whose father is a unionist politician. Mick's twin brother Pat, who has stayed clear of street fights, begins to feel the pull of resistance after British paratroopers open fire on a civil rights march, killing thirteen people. Both brothers end up joining the IRA, and Melissa, moved by the civil rights cause, finds herself drawn into the struggle too. Mick soon has to weigh his loyalty to Pat, his duty to the community and his love for Melissa. The novel follows this family across twenty-five years of the Troubles.
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