It is an honour to be asked to deliver the British Council Lecture and a particular pleasure to be asked to do so in Belfast and here at Queen’s University.

I am particularly glad to do so as part of a continuous reflection on identity and belonging , so well represented in the British Council’s publications – the four volumes of Lives Entwined, to which my words are a response, in particular to Volumes Three, with its beautiful essays on identity and memory, such as that of Olivia…