Crossing the Line: My Life on the Edge - Softcover

Dillon, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785371304 ISBN 13: 9781785371301

Publisher: Merrion Press, 2017

Synopsis

In Crossing the Line, former BBC journalist and best-selling author Martin Dillon recalls his courageous journalistic career spent ‘on the edge’ during the worst years of the modern Troubles. Following his childhood on Belfast’s Falls Road and his wandering teenage years, Dillon’s move into the world of journalism was soon to lead him down paths of extreme danger, putting himself in harm’s way to reveal the shocking truths of the emerging conflict in his native city. His extraordinary story reveals encounters with a roll-call of major political figures, paramilitaries, and Irish literary greats.

Dillon’s memoir is as compelling as it is incisive; a riot of revelations on the political and sectarian conflict that rocked Belfast during the 1970s and ’80s. Dillon’s aptitude and ambition gave him unparalleled access to the worlds of politics, sectarian violence, literature and media – Crossing the Line exposes the complex and oftentimes devastating thread that joins them.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Dillon worked as a BBC journalist for eighteen years producing award-winning programmes for television and radio, and has won international acclaim for his unique, investigative books on the Ireland conflict. Conor Cruise O Brien, renowned historian and scholar, described him as 'our Virgil to that inferno'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Merrion Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785371304
• ISBN 13: 9781785371301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277