Belfast Stories

Belfast Stories is a literary fiction podcast of fifteen interconnected short stories set in Belfast during the final years of the Troubles. Hosted and narrated by Gary Crossey, each episode offers character‑driven fiction drawn from journal entries from his early years in Northern Ireland. These aren't stories about bombs and barricades—they're about the ordinary lives lived between the headlines. A young man working in a shoe shop. A Mormon missionary navigating faith and desire. A teenager dyeing his hair black in a bathroom. Late-night phone calls about doubt. The weight of domestic violence behind brown curtains. Minor rebellions and quiet transformations. Inspired by James Joyce's Dubliners and rooted in the specific geography of Belfast, Portadown, Bangor, and Armagh, this series explores what it meant to grow up Mormon in a divided city, to navigate between who you were told to be and who you were becoming. Link: https://betterworldwithdesign.com/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/belfast-stories