Borrobil5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() And anyway, he’d written a book, and hadn’t I already learned that people who were from Northern Ireland - I mean really, properly from here - didn’t write books? So he can’t have been from here. He’d certainly done all the interesting things in England, like being a professor. Maybe his parents had just been here on holiday or something. Being born somewhere isn’t the same as living there, and it didn’t say anything about him living in Northern Ireland. ![]() Well, apart from CS Lewis, I was proud to discover but he didn’t really count - not properly - because according to the potted biography in my Narnia books, he’d only been born in Belfast. Probably nobody from Northern Ireland had ever written a book, or at least not one good enough to go in the shops. Clearly, people like me just didn’t get to appear in books and on television. The Famous Five, the Pevensey children, Wendy Darling and her brothers - English, and posher than me, the lot of them.īut that was okay, because all the children on telly were English too. I mean, most of the kids in the stories I read shared my skin-colour, more or less but they were English. There were lots of books about children a bit like me. ![]() ![]() When I was young I was a voracious reader, but I never read any books about children just like me. ![]()
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