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Maria McManus On The TV, Books, Poetry, Film & Music To Discover Once You’ve Read Say Nothing 

Maria McManus On The TV, Books, Poetry, Film & Music To Discover Once You’ve Read Say Nothing 

Service95 Book Club’s Monthly Read for June is Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe’s immersive account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. If you’ve read the book and you’re inspired to learn more about the country’s culture and history, here Northern Irish poet and artistic director Maria McManus – who lived through the height of the conflict and writes movingly about its impact on her as a child – suggests the books, TV, films and music to discover. 

Maria McManus Resources List This train is for- Short Story

Short Stories

Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine

This Train Is For by Bernie McGill

Maria McManus Resources list- We play Here- Poetry

Poetry

We Play Here by Dawn Watson

Gub by Scott McKendry

Irish Street by Damian Smyth

The Sun Is Open by Gail McConnell

The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce

Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson

Maria Mcmanus Resources list- The Glass Shore- Anthologies

Anthologies

Impermanence edited by Neil Hegarty and Nora Hickey M’ischili

The New Frontier: Reflections From The Irish Border edited by James Conor Patterson

The Glass Shore: Stories By Women Writers From The North Of Ireland

Maria Mcmanus Resources list Inventory- Non Fiction

Non-Fiction

Peace Comes Dropping Slow, My Life In The Troubles by Denis Bradley

Dirty Linen: The Troubles In My Home Place by Martin Doyle

Living With Ghosts, The Inside Story From A ‘Troubles’ Mind by Brian Rowan

Inventory: A Family Portrait Of Derry’s Troubled Past by Darren Anderson

Children Of The Troubles: The Untold Story Of The Children Killed In The Northern Ireland Conflict by Freya McClements and Joe Duffy

Bear In Mind These Dead by Susan McKay

Maria Mcmanus Resources list- Big girl small town- Fiction

Fiction

Milkman by Anna Burns

Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen

Close To Home by Michael Magee

Proxopera by Benedict Kiely

Maria Mcmanus Resources list-Blue Lights- TV BBC Pictures
Blue Lights, BBC

TV

Blue Lights, BBC

Derry Girls, Channel 4

Maria McManus Resources List- Good Vibrations- film
Good Vibrations

Films – Check out BFI Player

Cal (1984)

The Crying Game (1992)

In The Name Of The Father (1993)

Mickybo and Me (2004)

Good Vibrations (2012)

Maria McManus Resources List- No stone unturned- documentaries

Documentaries

Once Upon A Time in Northern Ireland (2023) – BBC iPlayer

No Stone Unturned (2017)

Maria McManus Resources List- Cara Dillon- Music
Cara Dillon, Alamy

Music

Van Morrison, Astral Weeks 

The Undertones

Stiff Little Fingers

Horslips

Soak

Cara Dillon

Una Monaghan

Arborist

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