The article had very personal consequences for Jenkinson. Or has it? At the time of writing, Belfast fiction writer and playwright Rosemary Jenkinson caused raised eyebrows by berating fellow Nordies in an article in Fortnight magazine for ‘feasting on the dead corpse of the Troubles more than ever’ and urged them to stop peddling ‘narrow-visioned Belfast Noir’. The old politically cautious adage-whatever you say, say nothing-seems finally to have been put to bed where writing about the Troubles is concerned. I think it’s dawned on people that this is a pretty interesting thing to write about and read about,’ Erskine has said. ‘This is a post-conflict society-by its nature, it’s complex. Almost a quarter century has passed since the Good Friday Agreement was signed and ‘Troubles’ fiction appears to be in bloom-and boom-with a surge of new female voices, in particular, such as Anna Burns, Jan Carson and Wendy Erskine.
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