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International Author, Inspirational Speaker, Broadcaster and Peacebuilder

He has spent the past 35 years working to build peace and reconciliation at home and abroad, working with hundreds of youth and community groups to break down barriers of mistrust, hatred and division.
Books by Tony Macaulay

From Paperboy to Paperbacks

Dr. Tony Macaulay is a bestselling author, leadership consultant, peacebuilder, broadcaster and suicide prevention advocate from Northern Ireland. He was raised at the top of the Shankill Road in West Belfast at the start of thirty-five years of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, an experience that has shaped his life.

New book just released!

Kill the Devil: A Love Story from Rwanda

“You can run and leave a place behind, but you can’t leave behind what is running inside of you.”

A woman and a man, nearly destroyed by extreme violence, hatred and despair, follow a rare and unexpected path, and discover extreme forgiveness, love and hope.

  • Kill the Devil: A Love Story from Rwanda

    You can run and leave a place behind, but you can’t leave behind what is running inside of you.
  • Little House on the Peace Line

    Driven by the conviction that things can change and that he can change them, Tony Macaulay takes up a job.
  • Belfast Gate

    It’s Belfast in 2019 and despite more than twenty years of peace, scores of so-called peace walls continue to separate Catholic & Protestant.
  • All Growed Up

    It’s Belfast, 1982, and a 17-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has an appointment with destiny. He is a real man now.
  • Breadboy

    It’s Belfast, 1977. The King is dead and a 14-year-old boy wearing Denim aftershave has just been appointed breadboy
  • Paperboy

    It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke.

    Testimonials & Book Reviews

    • “What shines through from the broadcaster and veteran peace campaigner’s writing is the quick, dark humour of the ‘lads’ from the Saltshaker and his own eternally and naive optimism that everything was going to be alright- despite the routine thievery and the odd bit of destruction.”
      ~ Irish News
    • This is a lovely, charming story of self discovery, self awareness, and throwing up in your girlfriend’s mum’s beige bidet

      ~ All Growed Up’ Book of the Week in The Irish News

    • “This is a wonderfully written, gripping novel, well-plotted, well-paced. It is a mix of every emotion you can think of, but the twists and turns of human feelings and reactions are handled with great descriptive and narrative skills. Quite a brilliant collaboration.”
      ~ Dropped the Moon blog
    • Underneath the laugh out loud humour and nostalgia for a Belfast thankfully long past, if we lean in and read closely, we find a challenging social commentary on class difference as well as the peculiar political problems of our wee bread loving city.
      ~ Steve Stockman
    • The great thing about Tony Macaulay’s delightful memoir is that it gets behind stereotypes and shows life as it was for a youngster growing up on the Shankill in the 1960s and 1970s…
      ~ Belfast Telegraph