Sam Millar (born 1955) is a crime writer and playwright from

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingd ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. North ...

. Millar was also a member of the

Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief t ...

from around the age of 15 after first seeing the events of Bloody Sunday and then, a few days after Bloody Sunday, a friend of Millar was killed. The school he attended was St Patrick's College, Belfast on Antrim Road, Belfast. School classmates

Joe Doherty Joe Doherty (born 20 January 1955) is an Irish former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a member of the Special Air Service (SAS) in 1980. He was arrest ...

, New lodge, Maxie Maxwell, Andersonstown, Hugh Connolly, New Lodge. Tommy Denver, New Lodge.

Bibliography

* ''Dark Souls'' * ''On the Brinks'' * ''The Redemption Factory'' * ''The Darkness of Bones'' * ''Bloodstorm : A Karl Kane Book'' * ''The Dark Place : A Karl Kane Book'' * ''The Dead of Winter : A Karl Kane Book'' * ''Small Town Killing'' * ''Brothers in Arms'' (stage play) * ''The Bespoke Hitman''

References

Living people British crime fiction writers Writers from Belfast 1955 births {{Ireland-writer-stub