This month Tony Macaulay launched a brand new edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, Little House on the Peace Line in the Hope Macaulay Studio in Northern Ireland.
The author of Paperboy, Breadboy, All Growed Up and Belfast Gate, said, ‘Of all my books this is the one that speaks most clearly on my hopes for Northern Ireland. With our continued failure to achieve political stability and reconciliation, as we approach the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, I felt the time was right for a new edit of the original memoir.’
Little House on the Peace Line: Love and Laughter in the Shadow of a Belfast Peace Wall
Driven by the conviction that things can change and that he can change them, Tony Macaulay takes up a job running a youth club in the staunchly nationalist New Lodge, in an area known as Murder Mile, where youth unemployment is at 90 per cent. Challenge enough you might think, but it’s also a requirement of the job that Tony, a Protestant from the Shankill Road, and his wife Lesley live in the local community. Inspiring, heart-breaking, and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is the story of how one couple kept the faith in a little house on the peace line.
Little House on the Peace Line is available in all good bookstores worldwide.
Fashion designer, Hope Macaulay is Tony’s daughter. Hope Macaulay is a contemporary, luxury and bespoke fashion brand of a young fashion and textiles designer based in Northern Ireland. Hope Macaulay pioneers and creates sustainable, feel-good Colossal Knits and expressive painted garments, handmade to order by her knitters and seamstresses in Northern Ireland for the world.
