Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville, in the introduction to the recently launched collection of short stories, Belfast Noir (N.Y., Akashic, 2014) describe Belfast, with some claims, as ” the noirest city on earth”.  The feeling seems to be shared by the international publishing industry. In so far at least as original titles of noir novels set in Northern Ireland have been changed,  in translation or for the U.S. Market, in order to feature the name of the city. Or have been produced originally, abroad, or domestically with a title using explicitly Belfast as a byword  for violence.  Here are a few examples of such “Belfastxploitation”, with some images for a view on Belfast, as reconstructed from the outside…

Sam Millar , Die Bestien von Belfast: Ein Fall für Karl Kane, Translator :  Joachim Körb

Atrium Verlag, Hamburg, 2013 (original, Bloodstorm, 2008).…

Sam Millar, Les Chiens de Belfast, (Bloodstorm) Paris, Seuil, Translation Patrick Raynal, 2015

Eoin McNamee,  Belfaster Auferstehung, Hamburg: Rotbuch-Verl., 1996 (Translation Hans-Christian Oeser, original, Resurrection Man)

(US edition; original UK title, The Twelve, Harvill Secker 2009)

ibid.

Spain, Urano, Plata negra,  2010

 

(Translation Fabienne Duvigneau, Paris, Rivages, 2011)

Stuart Neville, Die Schatten von Belfast, Translation Armin Gontermann, Berlin, Aufbau Taschenbuch, 2012

Duchy Belfastu, Translation Tomasz Konatkowski,  Warszawa: Wydawnictwo W.A.B., 2012

Adrian McKinty, Die Sirenen von Belfast (I hear the Sirens in the Street) Translation Peter Torberg, Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2014

Mike Shelley,  Piedipiatti a Belfast, Il Romanzo Giallo, Milano: Garden, 1998

Richard Deutsch, Belfast Blues, Rennes, Terre de Brume, Collection Granit noir, 1999

Michael Muller, Belfast Blues,  Berlin, Rowohlt, 2000

 Gérard de Villiers, Rabbia a Belfast, Milano, Mondadori, 1975

Gérard de Villiers, Furie à Belfast, Paris, Plon, 1974

Gerard de Villiers, The Belfast Connection, Pinnacle Books , 1976

 Jerry Cotton, Die Belfast-Connection. Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei Lübbe, 2003.

Colin Bateman, Belfast Confidential, 2005

Gerry McCullough, Belfast Girls, CreateSpace,2010

Gerry McCullough, Angel in Belfast, Precious Oil Publications, 2014

Laurence Fontaine,   Larmes rouges sur Belfast, Fouesnant, Yoran embann, 2011.

Shaun Hutson: Il veleno di Belfast / Pace armata; Milano, Supersegretissimo, Mondadori, 2007