Original sentence: Living in the Northern Ireland as a young man during the beginning of the Troubles, he credits two things that piqued his fascination with the North, while remaining nonpolitical: his early teaching experiences educating young boys, both Catholic and Protestant, in Belfast; and a five feature commission he received from the now-defunct Sunday Times to write about and reseach the Battle of the Somme
Edited sentence: Living in the north of Ireland as a young man during the beginning of the Troubles, he credits two things that piqued his fascination with the North, while remaining nonpolitical: his early teaching experiences educating young boys, both Catholic and Protestant, in Belfast; and a five feature commission he received from the now-defunct Sunday Times to write about and reseach the Battle of the Somme