Vincey Watt was born in Drumquin, Co Tyrone, in 1956. His family moved to Omagh, Co Tyrone, in 1966. He was educated by the Christian Brothers for a while, leaving school when he was sixteen to work on the building sites in London.Returning to Omagh at nineteen, he broke his neck in a demolition job as a result of an IRA bomb at the Town Hall.Whilst recovering from a broken neck, he developed manic depression. Learning to live with this condition, he then completed a thirty-year career in psychiatric nursing. He began writing after retiring.
The Tisperer is a gripping Irish novel that follows the journey of a lone nationalist sniper who takes on the British Army during the turbulent times of the ‘dirty war’ in the Six Counties of Ireland. The story is set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, which led to a violent con...
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