Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Voice of the Troubles: Stories from the Irish Conflict(52/59 minute versions)
Rundown (newshole version)
00:00 to 00:59, Billboard. In: “25 years ago…” Out: “…Irish Hunger Strike.”
01:00 to 06:29, newshole
06:30 to 18:59, Segment A. In: “You wouldn’t know…” Out: “…window dot org”
19:00 to 19:59, station break
20:00 to 38:59, Segment B. In: “Welcome back…” Out: “…window dot org”
39:00 to 39:59, station break.
40:00 to 58:59, Segment C. In: “Welcome back…” Out: “…and Ray Fisher.”
VOT 60min Sketch
Billboard
NAR1 25 years ago 10 men in Northern Ireland went on hunger strike, and died.
-irish freedom
-propaganda
-thud
-beaten to death
NAR2 As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plod on, we’ll look this hour at similar conflict the reached it’s peak 25 years ago. Where a foreign army was mired between warring factions on the brink of civil war with no conclusion in sight. Coming up, Voice of the Troubles, 25 years after the Irish Hunger Strike.
SegA (~12:30)
-bagpipes
NAR3 You wouldn’t know from the bag pipes, but this is a bar in the Irish section of Bronx. And in this bar there’s a catholic mass about to start.
-galic mass
NAR4 But because the mass is in Gaelic and it’s a memorial mass for the 25th anniversary of the Irish hunger strike, no one thinks it unnatural to hold a religious service here.
There are 110 people are crammed into this back room of Kelly Ryan’s listening to priests’ homily.. The memorial mass has both the young and the old. The young fiddle with cell phones or stared wide eyed at the souvenir table that has been set up on the side. There are also the posters, hanging on the wall. These posters are of men in ski masks with rifles. They look very scary and catch the wonder of one boy in the back row. After the mass ends the boy tugs on his fathers shirt to ask who those scary men are. Those scary men are the IRA
-priest yelling, “those young men were . . .”
NAR5 Monsignor Patrick Mahooney. He has been a catholic priest for more than 40 years. He leans into the microphone as if it were an errant child needing scolding. He tries to get as close as possible to the mic until finally he is bent over and shouting at waist level.
-is this christ’s message? “christ would have”
NAR6 Like most of the adults in the room the monsignor sympathies with the IRA. He knows that some people, including the US government, consider the Irish Republic Army a terrorist organization. But for him and others in the room, the IRA fights for freedom and keep the oppressors at bay.
-cambel being bitten by dog
-cambel on raided by british
NAR7 For many, the IRA is justified in attacking, justified in placing bomb
that accidentally blow up civilians.
-cambel on “your loss is great”
NAR8 The conflict she speaks of is the Troubles, a span of 30 years where sporadic violence simmered between Northern Ireland's Unionist community made up largely of protestants and their foes Catholic nationalists. The conflict was over whether Northern Ireland was part of the England. It was also about equal access to jobs and housing. It IS about the believed domination of the Catholic minority by a Protestant majority. The Catholic nationalist had the IRA and the protestant unionists had the British army, the Irish police, and also their own scary men in masks.
-malokey on invaded
NAR9 Scary men against scary men.
-BUFFER: fade crowd singing it in to jolly beggermen if possible( woman singing badly at end, use it). wrap that green flag around me, [use this as buffer, the whole thing if necessary]
NAR10A Pivotal moment in the troubles happened 25 years ago. The Irish
hunger strike.
-hughes, francious dying
NAR11 The hunger strike lasted for 4 months, the longest went with out food for 73
days. Their deaths gave new life to a nationalist movement and brought the world’s attention to Northern Ireland. Recruitment in the IRA surged and money poured in to help support what was seen as a heroic and romantic cause. But like all conflict, there are two sides to tell.
-sam: propaganda,
NAR12 Sam Malcolmonson served in the Irish police
-sam: story about landmine
-hughes: jokey kind of fellow, he was accused, it all started, through killing
NAR13Coming Up . [put pillow case on . . . I saw the blood between]. . when our
program continues . . . if you would like to see pictures or download a podcast of this program go to our website www dot 2nd window dot org
SegB (~19:00)
-sam: getting shot up to crash into the gates
-hughes: escaping getting caught
-sam: laying on foot path, hospital no mum, she died
***trim for time***
-hughes: wake/funeral, I miss him, proud of him, he’s loved back home
-sam: still have that wound today, like boil, life’s too short for terrorism
-hughes: gw was a terorist too
***trim for time***
NAR14 The differences between republicans like Francis and loyalist like Sam were deadly and resulted in more than 3000 deaths during the Troubles. Those differences were on matters great [cambel: the oppressed never initiated violence] and matters petty [they called us lesbians]. And The differences were sometimes so subtle that a single becomes a matter of perspective.
-cambel/earl
BUFFER:?
NAR15 In 1972 Deirdre was 9 and William was 12 and that year 479 of their neighbors
were killed in the Troubles. William was raised protestant and his father served in the British army. Deirdre was raised catholic and her father was an IRA commander
-will/dier on house
NAR16Even though they’ve never met and grew up 50 miles apart on opposite sides of a
conflict their lives dovetail each other’s perfectly. As William’s father earned a living fighting paramilitary groups. Dierdra’s father lead a paramilitary group and coordinated attacks against the British Army. Together, their stories tell of a childhood cobbled together between shadows of war
-will/dier before troubles
-will troubles start
-dierdra: father/internment
NAR17 After this break [they had to give me valuim, they tide willy’s arms back with
barb wire] . . . stay tuned . . . if you would like to listen this again online, visit www dot 2nd window dot org.
SegC (~19:00)
-will: troubles
-dierdra: internment/father
-will:father
NAR18 It was because their fathers fought eachother that made their lives so similar. The stories of William and Dierdra also show how the experience is universal for any child growing up in any conflict.
BOUNCE
-dierdra:she’s a wee granny
-will: grow up wuick
-dierdra:sick feeling of fear, guilt
-will: random mortar, relief
-dierdra:self doubt, negative self image
-will: never had chance to greive
-dirdra: anger, little stuff
-dierdra: what was normal
NAR19 Deirdre left Ireland in 1984 and is living in NY. She has 3 boys. William still lives in Northern Ireland and started an organization for victims of the IRA. He has one boy.
BUFFER
NAR20 after a lifetime of conflict the wisdom to emerge from Ireland is one of caution.
-Will says need to be careful about creating conflict
NAR21 whether it’s in Ireland or elsewhere in the world, when the facts are disassociate from conflict, When you take away the politics, the accusations, the justifications, all that’s left of conflict is this thing that breeds it’s own destruction and plucks people from time in it’s own accord.
earl mortar attack
adams (randomness)
NAR21a Conflict doesn’t distinguish between just and unjust or right and wrong. It only meanders over the landscape in absolute randomness.
Gene (husband killed coming home, wedding)
NAR22 But conflict doesn’t just hover in the distance waiting, it seeps into people’s lives, into the very fabric of daily living.
Carson (check everything Carson (can you imagine kid blew up in car))
Carson (Don’t socialize)
NAR23 Conflict is universal and it prays on our very humanity.
Survivial
Sam says this while driving back to station
Cambell says this at funeral march
-sam says this when he was shot
-cambel says this during riot
Being xian
Priest
Earl (no xian would do that)
NAR24 once created conflict will brew long past it’s precieved lifespan. The creators of conflict are arrogant in their presumption that they control it. because conflict’s last chuckle at the world is how it raises the next generation
Kids
Will
diedra
NAR25 Voice of the Troubels, a 2nd window production. Reported and Hosted by Charles Lane. For more information, photos and a podcast of the entire program. Visit us on line at www.2ndwindow.org. Musical credits for the program include The Jolly Beggermen, The Brob-ding-nogian Barbs, Marc Gunn, Anuna, and Ray Fisher
-Unknown Title, Jolly Beggermen, no album info
-First Day, Anuna, Anuna
-(Cats Chasing Butterflies, Wild Mountain Thyme, My Irish Valentine), The Brobdingnogian Barbs, no album info
-Parting Glass, Mark Gunn, no album info
-Unknown Title, Ray Fisher, no album info
