Susan McKay
Susan McKay is an Irish journalist and author whose books include "Bear In Mind These Dead" (Faber 2008) and Northern Protestants - An Unsettled People (Blackstaff, 2000). Her work has won several awards and has been widely anthologised. She is a former Northern editor of the Sunday Tribune and has written for many other publications in the UK and Ireland.
Recent Posts by Susan McKay
Tip Sheet Collection: Victims and Dealing with the Past
April 9, 2019 by Susan McKayThis collection of tip sheets, written by journalist Susan McKay, is part of a Queen’s University Belfast project exploring the intersection between victims and ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland, in particular through examining the themes of voice, agency, and blame.
It includes guidelines on 1) interviewing victims and survivors of conflict; 2) representing and engaging with victims and survivors for journalists, editors and educators; 3) speaking to journalists and the media.
Paramilitary Victims: Inconvenient Truths in N. Ireland
May 29, 2014 by Susan McKaySinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has, for now, put his alleged role in the IRA’s 1972 murder of Belfast woman Jean McConville behind him as his party topped polls in European and local government elections. Irish journalist Susan McKay analyzes the impact of the McConville case, and of Northern Ireland's broader effort to come to terms with its past.
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