Our Parlour: Liam Kelly

Maryann Quigley talks to writer and poet Liam Kelly about his life growing up in the New Lodge Road in North Belfast during The Troubles. As a child he was knocked down by a car, spending three months in a coma and suffered complete memory loss. The death of his wife from cancer resulted in Liam having a nervous breakdown resulting in homelessness and drug use and finally prison. It was life in prison that led him to start writing poetry and the book ‘Memoirs of a Belfast Boy’ and put him on the road to redemption.