CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

A Glossary of Ulster Scots

Prologue

Honeymoon

Lessons in Heaven

Lessons in Hell

Unhappy Home

Great-aunt Rose and the Goat

Lipstick, Glamour and Death

A Port of Dreams

Bombs and Motorbikes

One Friend, Many Strangers

The Haunting

The Master and The Provo

Leaving the Sunlight for the Gloom

The Big School

The Weird and the Wonderful

Three Days in Purgatory

At War with Colour

John Henry and the Maltese Broad

Facing the Void

Offering it Up

Roll-call of Death

From Fear to Love

About the Author

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