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Join us for a special screening of Letters from the Blitz, a new documentary for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NI television.

This event will take place at the Ulster Museum at 6.30pm on Monday 20 October and is part of Book Week 2025, a joint initiative between the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and Libraries NI.

Letters from the Blitz makes use of the wartime letters that Helen Ramsey Turtle sent to her family in the United States and which were published in Midnight Again: The Wartime Letters of Helen Ramsey Turtle (edited by John Wilson Foster).

These letters offer a revealing insight into different aspects of life in Northern Ireland in the period immediately before and during World War Two.

Helen Ramsey Turtle was a brilliant observer of people and events and her letters describe the human cost of the Belfast Blitz and the effect of American soldiers arriving in large numbers in Northern Ireland. They also provide an account of family, social and cultural life and her own resilience in the face on an unexpected cancer diagnosis.

Julie Turtle Mackie (one of Helen’s daughters) will talk about her mother’s letters and the making of this documentary in a short conversation afterwards with Mark Simpson, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News NI’s Community Correspondent.

Tickets for this free Book Week 2025 event are limited to two per applicant.