Carlo Gébler: The Glass Curtain. Inside An Ulster Community

˝While the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe has disappeared into history, the invisible Glass Curtain of Northern Ireland remains firmly in place. Carlo Gébler, a Dubliner by birth, spent a year in Enniskillen, a town ravaged by the bomb which killed eleven and injured sixty-three on Remembrance Sunday. Examining the effect of this tragedy upon the community and the town's efforts at reconciliation, he provides a fascinating account of extraordinary people. With a novelist's eye for character and revealing dialogue, he shows us the people behind the platitudes, the wit behind the slogans and some surprising emotions behind apparent intransigence. An imaginative writer of sensitivity and skill ... he works with the insight of a novelist through the techniques of higher journalism required reading for anyone seriously trying to put an end to the human tragedy that remains.˝ (Robert Kee)