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Borderlines: Jan Carson on having multiple identities, holding on to faith and life in Northern Ireland after Brexit

Jan Carson talks to Borderlines hosts Freya McClements and Mary Minihan about her rural Protestant evangelical background. The writer, whose grandfather was an Orangeman, explains how her latest novel The Raptures was inspired by the Co Antrim community she grew up in. She says B ... Show more

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Borderlines: Rosemary Jenkinson on identity, culture and resisting being pigeonholed.

Writer Rosemary Jenkinson talks to Borderlines hosts Freya McClements and Mary Minihan about her very British upbringing in Northern Ireland, the awkward facts of history and how a trip to Palestine changed her perspective. The author recalls how the Troubles touched her childhoo ... Show more

. 39min 37sec

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