Danny Morrison to launch updated memoir in Dungiven this week

All the Dead Voices – A Memoir by Danny Morrison will be launched in Glór Dhún Geimhin on Friday, October 3 at 7.30pm.

Danny Morrison is a writer who lives in West Belfast. In the 1980s he was the national director of publicity for Sinn Féin, served time as a republican prisoner, and as well as writing/reviewing is a political commentator in newspapers, on television and radio.

He is the secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust and for several years until 2014 was the chairperson of Féile an Phobail, the festival founded in West Belfast in 1988.

The voices of the dead - speaking of their lives, their hopes and dreams - echo through this book. In vivid, tender, thought-provoking pieces, Danny Morrison celebrates the indomitable human spirit that sustains us through our darkest moments.

The focus shifts from the tragic, long-drawn-out death of Danny's beloved sister to the violent killing of an IRA Volunteer, from the suicide of an unhappy, lonely woman in Belfast to the last days of a young Canadian soldier killed during the First World War.

With sorrow but also with wry humour, Morrison evokes the presence of these dead and writes movingly of their lasting legacy - what he has learned from them about how to live, how to forgive and how to love.

The Dungiven event, which will be chaired by Cathal Ó hOisín, will see a Q&A session take place with the author and an opportunity to get books signed. Light refreshments will be served.