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No Stone Unturned review – a scrupulous documentary
This documentary unsparingly recounts the 1994 murders of six men and wounded of five others at O’Toole’s Bar in County Down. But to illustrate how difficult it is to find the answers that would lead to some form of justice, two of the journalists who supplied material for the film were arrested by the Police…
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The Themes of What Goes Around
By the time I began to write my story back in the 1990s one of my preoccupations had become the lack of access to justice for people without much money, ‘social status’, or connections. Distance in time and space, as I had by then immigrated to Canada with my wife and four children, had helped…
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The Twist- Article 2
As well as holding leftwing views, like millions of others, Don Blaney believes that Ireland should be a 32 county republic. But he doesn’t just believe that a republic would best serve the Irish, whatever their religious or ethnic background, he also believes – as someone who has helped people regardless of their nationality –…
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The Twist Article 1
The Twist Prologue In the coming weeks and months I will be publishing 24 short articles that I wrote following my conversations with the man who was also my literary editor and publisher who became caught up with the investigation into, what was then, the biggest bank robbery ever to have taken place in Ireland…
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When Malcolm X took on British Racism
Such was the furore following the election in Smethwick in 1964 that the civil rights campaigner Malcolm X was moved to pay a visit.
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Enoch Powell
Wolverhampton became a byword for hostility towards inhabitants who were not white and British when in 1968 Enoch Powell, a local MP, made a speech to his fellow Conservatives in which he called for people like my parents to be repatriated. As warning of what could happen should immigrants continue to be allowed into Britain…
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The Twist
In the coming weeks and months I will be publishing 24 short articles that I wrote following my conversations with the man who was also my literary editor and publisher who became caught up with the investigation into, what was then, the biggest bank robbery ever to have taken place in Ireland or Britain. The…
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The Background Story
It was the soot belching from the foundries that was the cause of the area in the Midlands of England becoming known as ‘The Black Country’ and not, as some people assume, because of the influx of peoples from the Caribbean and Indian sub-continent. I was born in an industrial town (now a city) called…
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The No Alibis Bookstore
The No Alibis Bookstore in Botanic Avenue is one of the best independent outlets for fans of crime fiction. It had not been opened for business that long when owner Dave Torrans kindly hosted the launch of What Goes Around in Belfast. I am delighted to report that 25 years later that the store is…
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Looking Back at the Old & Celebrating the New.
A quarter of a century has passed since my debut novel What Goes Around was first published
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Ralph Robb 