Only Wounded: Ulster Stories

Jeffrey J. Cormier is a PhD candidate in sociology specializing in
Canadian society at McGill University.

Patrick Taylor is a medical doctor who moved to Canada from Bangor,
Northern Ireland, in 1970. In these 16 stories about Ireland’s
internecine conflict, he chronicles the struggles and suffering of
ordinary people caught up in the madness of political and religious
hatred and violence. Extremists on both sides are the objects of
authorial disapproval. Taylor’s sympathies are with those characters
who strive to transcend sectarian violence in small, often unnoticed,
ways—characters like Neill and Pat, a Catholic and a Protestant who
forge a bond through their mutual love of wildfowling and fishing.

Taylor is more than an accomplished storyteller. His ability to capture
the complexity of Northern Ireland’s problems would make this book
excellent supplementary reading for courses dealing with Irish political
and social history.