About Susan McKay
Susan McKay is a writer from Derry, now living in the Irish Republic. Her journalism has been widely anthologised, including in the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. She has written two critically acclaimed best sellers, Sophia’s Story, a biography of child abuse survivor Sophia McColgan, and Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, a portrait of the community from which she comes, as well as a history of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Without Fear. Her book on the aftermath of the Irish conflict – Bear in Mind These Dead – was published by Faber and Faber in June 2008.

The British government
has shamelessly covered its tracks in relation to abuse of its authority in
Ireland, and continues to do so. It is time to talk about what happened to us
all during those long, dark years of conflict and hatred, when we lived in the
same houses, but in different worlds.




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