Issues of Truth and Invention
Colm Tóibín: Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts, 4 January 2001
The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart
edited by Brendan Barrington.
Lilliput, 192 pp., £25, September 2000,1 901866 54 8 Show More
edited by Brendan Barrington.
Lilliput, 192 pp., £25, September 2000,
“... to Belfast to see the UDA and had become friendly with one of the younger members and had met Andy Tyrie, the leader, and come to admire him in certain ways. Stuart would leave a silence at such moments and, if there were a rabbit or a cat close by, he would stroke it. I knew that he was also sending books to IRA prisoners and writing letters to them. I ... ”