The young ones
I was 18 when S first heard heavy gunfire in the Belfast night air. ›at was in August 1969 when a year of civil rights protesting had culminated in armed chaos.
This was essentially the start of the Northern Ireland Troubles, which would continue for three decades and which still stutter on in the form of occasional rioting and attempts to kill police officers.
I was 21 at the start of what I call the Year of
