Saturday, 27 August 2016
479 The Troubles
First viewed : 5 January 1981
A slight shift in tone is required here I think. The Troubles was a six part series on the ongoing tragedy of Northern Ireland pertinently timed as it was about to ratchet up a notch with the election and death of Bobby Sands. It proved that ITV could do a serious documentary if it put its mind to it.
At the time I saw this I was pro-British after the IRA's mainland bombing campaign in the seventies despite being a Catholic. I never once heard my father , who was from Kilkenny, express an opinion on the situation in the North so there was no pressure on me to take a side. I remember our R.E. teacher Mr Flynn getting a bit shirty with me for reminding him that Sands had actually committed a mortal sin by his suicide.
If nothing else , the series enabled me to take a better-informed more nuanced view of the conflict.
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