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And still do, and i wasn't immune to that. but there was a wider sense that because there was a battle going on in northern ireland at that time, and it did feel a kind of embattled position that people needed to stick together, because there was a sense that if you didn't, that division would be exploited and so on. i suppose that you just grew up with that as kind of awareness. it wasn't. .. we had, as a family, i suppose an experience where, it sounds like a trivial thing, but people were collecting to paint the curbs in our street red, white and blue, for the 12th, and my mum would not pay...
On the road outside our house, remember 1690 across the top. in saying that, they didn't paint the kerbs outside the house, so it was a phyric victory, but we managed to at least assert that we didn't want that to happen. that was something i was conscious of that going up. but the belief that you had to assert your identity by painting flowers, by having marches. your dad was a member of the order, as it would be normal in east belfast, the orange order, but for him and people like him just seems
12th come and smite mum would not pay for that, because she didn't believe we should deface public property. it is fairly basic stuff! but she felt strongly about it, and we woke up next morning with a massive union flag painted on the road outside our house, but remember 1690 across the top. we got the message come if you didn't come from, you would confirm any more. in saying that, they didn't paint the curbs outside the house, so it was a ferric victory, but we managed to at least assert that we didn't want that to happen. that was something i was conscious of that going up. you love with t...
About this at this stage? brian, i'm curious. i first went - to northern ireland as a reporter for the canadian broadcasting corporation- in the mid '905. i felt like i needed - a dictionary and a road map to understand the - shorthand terminology that's used to cover this story — - sectarian, unionist... when you're not inside i the bubble of this story... as most of our audience isn't. ..it is so difficult— to know who's on what side and to understand the history. well, the history is actually easier than the present. i i remember turning up late for a story one day outside downing stree...