Why are there no romance novels set in Belfast? Claire McGowan on the potential for genres other than crime to take off in Northern Ireland
Tue, May 11, 2021, 05:54 Claire McGowan
Claire McGowan: “I’m part of the problem, I’ll admit, as it wouldn’t have occurred to me to set a women’s fiction novel in Belfast, had my editor not suggested it.” Photograph: Jamie Drew
Writing in 2003, in an essay entitled Why Crime Fiction is Good For You, Ian Rankin commented that there were almost no thrillers coming out of Northern Ireland, perhaps because violence was still too real there to be entertainment.
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Former NRB staff member Anne Dunlap went home to be with the Lord on April 30, 2021. Anne was the longest serving staff member in NRB’s 77-year history.
“Anne served NRB for 42 years with great distinction,” NRB CEO Troy A. Miller said in remembering Anne. “Despite many health challenges, she never focused on herself, and she gave her all to NRB. I know that she now is rejoicing in the presence of her Lord and Savior.”
Her tenure with NRB began in 1976, when the headquarters office was based in New Jersey under then Executive Director Ben Armstrong. She moved with the organization when the office relocated to Virginia in 1992 and worked in Washington, D.C. after NRB moved its headquarters there in 2016. Anne served as assistant to the president under five different association heads before retiring in 2019. During her long tenure with NRB, Anne often recalled meeting so many of the heroes of Christian broadcasting including the late Dr. Billy Graham.
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Philadelphia, January 19, 2021 - Early life experiences can have an outsized effect on brain development and neurobiological health. New research is showing that those effects can be passed down to subsequent generations, reporting that the infant children of mothers who had experienced childhood emotional neglect displayed altered brain circuitry involved in fear responses and anxiety.
The study appears in These results show that our brain development is not only shaped by what happens in our own life, but is also impacted by things that happened to our parents before we were even conceived, said lead author of the study, Cassandra Hendrix, PhD, Department of Pyschology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.