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As per, but a vast amount of it is very directly autobiographical and where it isn't, i think there's a sort of emotional truthfulness about what the film embraces which is, that at nine—years—old, when the world for this young lad, literally turns upside down, where the ground is taken from beneath his feet, the pavements on which we stood 20 minutes previously are lifted up by a rioting mob, and a few hours later, the population's scared and back in their houses, spills out, lifts those same paving stones and suddenly, there's a barricade at either end of the street, so there was a quali...

Funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. but i watched the world cup final in a neighbour's house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world...

It was the place of dreams, became somewhere that you had to check in and out of. suddenly, you had to sign to leave your own street and go through a barricade and a sort of primitive checkpoint charlie. what i was aware of was being put on a high alert. so, as it were, your emotional engine was revving really high, and it was exhausting. that's what i remember. and for everyone, it was absolutely exhausting, and on every side. and families were moving in and out of streets, you know, it was a time of tremendous change. and also, where the media and the explosion of everything in terms of soci...

1969, where real violence erupted on the streets. i mean, the idea of the father in the film being threatened by the protestant hard men for refusing to go along with the gangs and threatening his catholic neighbours, was that something that directly happened to your father? there was a sense, er, you couldn't be in that part of belfast at that time — at least, through my nine—year—old eyes, you couldn't be — unless there was some sense of threat and the possibility of intimidation. and are they really vivid memories that you have? i mean, just taking yourself back to those moments of ...

Winston churchill's funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped. and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. but i watched the world cup final in a neighbour's house. and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least, it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at image...