Showing Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Tóibín

Paperback. Pub Date :2001-5-1 Pages: 193 Publisher: Economic Times In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement. when tension washigh in Northern Ireland. Colm Toibin walked along the border fromDerry to Newry Bad Blood is a stark and. evocative account ofthis journey through fear and hatred. and a report on ordinary lifeand the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape Toibindescribes the rituals -. the marches. the funerals. thedemonstrations - observed by both communities along the border. andlistens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy andinsight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of themost contested strips of land in Western Europe. Toibin has thenarrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domesticdetail of John McGahern. but he is very much his . own man-Observer High-class reportage ... Toibin was conscientious abo...