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DIED. BRIAN MOORE, 77, Belfast-born author; in Malibu, Calif. In his 20 novels, Moore used sparse prose to tackle giant themes including faith, morality and the bigotry of denizens of his native city. An expatriot whose first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, detailed the life of an unmarried Belfast woman, Moore particularly floored critics with his empathically crafted female characters...
Coming from a culturally rich but economically poor Roman Catholic farming family in Northern Ireland, a world that would pervade his early works and continues to haunt his writing, Heaney attended Queen's University, Belfast and taught at several other universities before ending up at Harvard, where he taught a poetry workshop every spring semester until he won the Nobel Prize...
...Northern Ireland, May Blood is an information officer for the Early Years Project in the Shankill area of Belfast. With a sister organization in the Catholic Springfield area, the project fights for peace through education. Blood is also a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, a group that was involved in the talks that led to the Good Friday Accords last April...
...focus of Geraldine McAteer's work in West Belfast is the social, economic and environmental regeneration of the Upper Springfield region...
McAteer also helped organize a visit by the former president of the Republic of Ireland, Mary Robinson, to West Belfast in 1992. The visit was seen as a major breakthrough in the peace process...