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'The Trouble We've Seen...'
WOMEN'S STORIES 
from the NORTH of IRELAND       

This book is a collection of twenty-one interviews with 
women who tell of their experiences during the recent 
conflict in the North of Ireland. They are stories which 
are both tragic and defiant. The women speak of great 
sadness and loss, but they also talk about survival and 
struggle against threats, state oppression and economic 
and social marginalisation.

Journalist and author Silvia Calamati has interviewed 
women in Derry, Portadown, South Armagh and Belfast. 
She records the experiences of women whose husbands 
and relatives have been killed, whose children have 
been mutilated, who have spent years in prison and who 
have been blinded by plastic bullets. They talk about the 
financial difficulties and the personal effects of violence 
on their lives and those of their families. In short, the 
women speak about 'the trouble they've seen...'

The interviews mainly cover the 1990s and provide an 
important record of these women's lives both before and 
after the 1994 cease fires.
  
Silvia Calamati is a journalist and writer. Since 1982 
she has concerned herself with the Irish question. From 
1990 until 1995 she covered Northern Ireland for the 
Italian weekly Avvenimenti.

Published August 2002

196 x 128mm
120pp.  

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ISBN 1-900960-19-2       Price  £6.99