FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE REALITY OF IRISH FICTION

FORT LAUDERDALE, JUNE 2005:  Baghdad, Palestine, Chechnya, Belfast... places that conjure unspeakable images of destruction and death. These are areas of the world where citizens are victims of terrorists: political and religious extremist minorities who act beyond the fringes of sanity to force their will on others. People have endured the ravages of terrorism for centuries; and the world has always reacted in much the same way as it does today. Like Iraq, Palestine and Chechnya, Northern Ireland is populated with 99% loving people and 1% radical extremist... yet we seem to focus on the 1%.

Across the Saltwater Bridge is fiction; however, the time, places and nearly all of the principal characters are real. Set in County Antrim, Ireland, during the first half of the nineteenth century, it relates the life and times of a working-class, Protestant family striving to succeed in a rapidly growing Belfast. The story opens with the aftermath of the battle of Antrim during the United Irishmen uprising of 1798 and continues until the time of the disastrous Potato Famine. Although the story of the Hamills of Antrim is fiction, its genesis is a skeleton of fond memories, fleshed out by genealogical research and finally dressed in the clothing of history.

“It is often said that the Irish, deeply rooted in their ancient Celtic origins, are among the world’s best storytellers.” So says author, Arthur R. Hamill, and he should know as he is one of them.

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