How to convey the recklessness of Johnson& #39;s tactics in relation to Northern Ireland?
Here are a few memories of my childhood growing up in working class West Belfast in the late 70s and 80s:
Here are a few memories of my childhood growing up in working class West Belfast in the late 70s and 80s:
- us lying scared at the bottom of our parents& #39; wardrobe, where they& #39;d put us, covered in a few quilts, listening, terrified, to the rioting and gunshots right outside on our wee street
- walking home from the playground with my two younger sisters, being trailed with a rifle by a soldier standing behind a wall, hoping that he& #39;s pointing that gun at me and not one of them
- being woken up in the middle of the night by a bloody massive bomb somewhere in the city and wondering who / what had been blown to pieces this time
- worrying about what we& #39;d all end up doing and being when noone gave a damn about "West Beirut", there were no jobs and few prospects, unless you were up for just leaving everything & everyone behind