Naming the Names | Summary
‘‘Naming the Names’’ begins on a late August day in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The narrator, Finn, arrives at her place of work, a used bookstore in the Falls, a Catholic area of the city. She is late and is thinking about the fact that a young man she knows has not called her in three weeks. Her supervisor Miss Macken gives her a job to do; it is just a routine day at the store.
A flashback follows, as the Catholic Finn recalls how she first met this young Protestant man. He was a graduate student at England’s Oxford University, and he was doing research in Irish...
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