The Revolutionary Youth | John Simpson
Individual lives and history collide…
Belfast in the 1960s was a place of laughter, community, and youthful dreams. But by the 1970s, those same streets became war zones, forcing young men like Tommy to grow up too fast and choose between resistance, survival, and sacrifice.
Tommy is a catholic teenager living in a protestant part of Belfast. His teenage years are upended when the vibrant working class street of his birth is dragged down into the violent sectarian nightmare they called ‘The Troubles’.
Some choose to get involved, others have no choice.
Childhood friends become enemies and families are uprooted.
Tommy decides to take matters into his own hands. But there are consequences - there are always consequences - and the boy becomes a man long before his time. He talks to us from the prison camp known as ‘Long Kesh’ where he tries to make sense of what has happened to him, his street and his people.
Read Tommy’s gripping and heartbreaking account of a life shaped 1970’s Belfast. Experience the choices, the losses, and the hope that refuses to be extinguished. Grab your copy today and step into a world where history is personal and the past is never far behind.
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