Meet the Author

Caroline Oceana Ryan is a poet and playwright whose work has appeared in UK poetry anthologies and city arts projects, and on BBC Northern Ireland’s Get Writing website; two of her plays were produced in Los Angeles. She writes about Northern Ireland for MatadorTravel.com. Ryan holds an M.A. in Education and Theological Studies from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She divides her time between Philadelphia and Belfast.

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An Old Castle Standing on a Ford: One Yank's Life in an Almost Peaceful Belfast is at once an exploration of Northern Ireland in the years following the peace agreement, and a story of a woman in a foreign land searching for peace within herself. 

Wanderlust and curiosity drive Caroline Ryan to leave her life in Los Angeles to live in Belfast, Northern Ireland to see what newly planted peace looks like. It is 2000—the Northern Ireland peace agreement is only two years old, and Ryan assumes that after thirty years of violent troubles, Belfast will be little more than a sad and burned out shell.

But many surprises await the author, as both she and the North struggle to make peace with their pasts. Against a backdrop of stormy grey clouds and brilliant green, Ryan meets a Northern Ireland of poets and storytellers, psychics and healers, soldiers and farmers, ghosts and long memories, love, and the wittiest people on earth.

 

 

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