Frank Delaney

The Celtic peoples fed on a rich mixture of legend and myth which, in many versions and derivations, were told at the firesides of Europe since before literacy. The Celts' ancestors had come from the foothills of the Himalayas, through the Middle East into Europe, and consequently many of the mythologies of the world …

Belle, a mill-girl in her twenties, from a poor and religiously oppressive Presbyterian terraced household in 1940s Belfast, falls in love with Gene, a Catholic from the South.