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Filmed on location in belfast, derry and dublin, the film is adapted from david park s award winning novel of the same name and looks behind the rhetoric surrounding the northern ireland peace process. In the truth commissioner, park has one of his characters. Northern irish writer park swallowing the sun, 2004, etc. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. The truth commissioner, strangely, is less interested in the truth and less likable than any of the guilty parties. This novel imagines a truth commission dealing with the aftermath of northern irelands troubles. The eponymous commissioner is henry stanfield, a lawyer and aging ladies man who wears his selfconscious rectitude like a cravat.
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