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They leave Joan Connolly where she lies beside Noel’s body. Joan has eight children, her youngest aged two. Her daughter says that Joan used to make the British soldiers sandwiches. She says that Joan used to say, God help them, they are someone’s son. Joan bleeds to death in a field. Three British soldiers admit shooting her. This is the truth: nobody is ever charged.

..if my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means that you built your state on my land.

It’s like, nothing’s real when it’s happening in the north. It’s only real pain when it happens to other people. It only matters when somebody else is dead, and then they start peace-groups, and then they write songs saying that it’s in our head, and they sing that, and they say that, as though none of it happened.