page_title: Literature of Northern Ireland
section_title: Writers of Belfast
hierarchical_section_title: Literature of Northern Ireland / Writers from Northern Ireland / Writers of Belfast
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lion, the Witch . . . . . . . and the Wardrobe. C S Lewis was born at the Holywood Villas (now the site of the Dundela Flats) and later lived at Little Lea on the Circular Road. He attended (briefly) Campbell College on the Belmont Road. He was baptised at St Mark’s, Dundela on the Holywood Road 448444. This statue, outside the library, at the Holywood Arches, on the Holywood Road was unveiled in 1998. It depicts Lewis, as the Narnia narrator Digory Kirke, stepping into a wardrobe.
context_page_description: That part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland was created in 1922, with the partition of the island of Ireland. The majority of the population of Northern Ireland wanted to remain within the United Kingdom. Most of these were the Protestant descendants of colonists from Great Britain.
  Literature of Northern Ireland includes literature written in Northern Ireland, and in that part of Ireland prior to 1922, as well as literature written by writers born in Northern Ireland who emigrated. It includes literature in English, Irish and Ulster Scots.
  The impact of Irish nationalism that led to the partition of the island of Ireland in 1921 means that literature of the Republic of Ireland is not considered to be British – although the identity of literature from Northern Ireland, as part of the literature of the United Kingdom, may fall within the overlapping identities of Irish and British literature where "the naming of the territory has always been, in literary, geographical or historical contexts, a politically charged activity".
context_section_description: Belfast has been home to a number of significant, novelists, poets and playwrights, besides the Belfast Group. C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, was born in Belfast as were Anna Burns, Brian Moore, Bernard MacLaverty, Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson. Poet Louis MacNeice was born in the city. Contemporary poets writing in and about Belfast include Leontia Flynn, Medbh McGuckian and Sinéad Morrissey.
caption: A sculpture in Belfast commemorating C. S. Lewis
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