Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border

by Colm Toibin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $10.47

  An account of a journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in the desolate landscape of Northern Ireland. Toibin describes the rituals, the marches, the funerals and the demonstrations, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $12.52

  In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Toibin walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape.

  Toibin describes the rituals - the marches, the funerals, the demonstrations - observed by both communities along the border, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of the most contested strips of land in Western Europe.