Our Ones: A Belfast Memoir

An insightful, revealing and heart-warming collection of memories about the joys and trials of growing up with family & friends - Our Ones - in Belfast in the 1960s and 1970s. Janice Donnelly, the author of 'Trying Times' and 'Buying Time', doesn't hold back in expressing the mixed emotions involved in her reflection on a period when her hometown was changing from a city of love and peace to one of chaos and conflict. "By mid to late seventies redevelopment dictated that we move on or stay put. Most of us moved on. The entire community was uprooted and over a period of time the houses were demolished. Many of us scattered to different areas across the city. We were still the same people, the same family but distance meant that the nucleus became fractured and fragmented. We were still connected but no longer in constant touch," she writes. "These are true recollections that take me back to a simpler place and time when the streets of my childhood were alive with large extended families - a vibrant, thriving community - and a great place to grow up."